Hey, Bob, two notes on your recent journal entries. Actually, these pertain to the 3 other people who read this blog, too.
First, please start using RSS. It’s so much easier for you, and it’s incomparably better for your readers. I monitor about 200 RSS feeds, which are automatically fed into an Outlook folder by NewsGator. That gives me powerful searching and aggregation, flagging, an easy way to mail selected items to people, access via Outlook, Outlook Web Access, NNTP, or IMAP, and tons of other features. I could go on rhapsodizing, but a better idea is for you to snag an RSS client and start experimenting with it. Publishing static HTML pages for daily journals is no longer the best way to do it, and I’ll be happy to help you and Dr Pournelle move forward in any way I can.
Second, family history. Arlene and I just took a terrific class at church on how to use the free Personal Ancestral FIle software to organize your genealogical data. This is an ideal way to capture the data you already have; PAF lets you intermix pictures, text notes, source data (e.g. where you found out that your great-great-uncle Fred was a horse thief), and family history data. It has a wealth of capabilities that I’m ill-equipped to explain, but one thing I do know is that it can automatically print a book with pages for each family member, including photos and text as appropriate. Really slick. You might also poke around on FamilySearch.org; I was easily able to find Dirk Volkertsen and his wife. By all means, you should capture as much of this information as you can and post it. I promise you that it will be worthwhile, and that you’ll find out things about your family you wouldn’t have otherwise suspected.
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