This is about something that happened over 50 years ago, that changed my life. One of my very favorite things to do today is publish on the Internet. I think it is just because I can. I wasn’t born or studied to be a writer. I am definitely not a professional, but for some reason I have enjoyed writing for half a century. It must be the lasting power of the printed word. It hangs...
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Fast Driving With Drupal
I posted an article here in RD about nine months ago saying I was looking into using Drupal7 for possibly building websites. Drupal is a CMS (Content Management System) software like WordPress (this website) and Joomla (many of my other websites). I built one trial site using Drupal and it still exists today. I think nine months is not very fast driving, but I have been playing there lately. I just realized the Drupal icon,...
Continue reading...What Price Free Expression
Friend, I haven’t done much, “Random Musings and Obscure Observations” lately. I have been sitting back and observing the change to absolute publication freedom the Internet has produced. I can sit here right now and uncensored, write whatever I want and I can post it for other people to read and think about. Printed thoughts are a wonderful invention and the evolution of worldwide uncensored electronic publishing took the lid off the box (Pandora’s). The...
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I posted something a few days ago in Face Book and looking at it some more, it seems a bit more profound than I intended. I wrote it in jest as a reply to how some people tend to reply with certain vigor and bias to an originator of a posted article. They usually expresses their commonly held opinions as fact, and then respond again to the additionally biased content of other reply postings expressing...
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