New header image

This is a birch tree which probably became the subject of a yellow-bellied sapsucker’s search for food; sapsuckers are known to punch holes in regularly spaced, straight lines (see Peterson’s Guide, for ex.)

New header image

The new header is from a rock wall near Popham Beach on the coast of Maine.

Mossy wall near Popham ME

Our former header:

Heron on the Susquahanna river

Re-starting this blog

We are reviving our attention to this on-line document; we have changed the layout theme and loaded a nice image of mine (a heron flying over the Susquehanna River near the Conowingo Dam from 2006).

With the dearth of any TV shows of value (where is “Monk” or “The Closer” when you need them?), we need something to keep us awake: the good news is a Red Sox team that has won more games so far this season than anyone else and a Presidential election cycle which promises to be the most entertaining in a long while.

NCWYT is not alone

I recently did a quick and idle google <verb: to search> of the theme acronym of this blog, NCWYT; the acronym was developed by a few others prior to my use (but unknown to me at the time of creation); I wonder how long it will take, if it ever happens, for the other NCWYTers to find this blog and interact with it.

In tribute to the theme, I don’t intend to interact with them.

The search also brought forth a number of other-language sites; most of them appear to be Chinese. It is unclear why these letters would appear in their abstracts.

WordPress blogging

We have opened up this blog site primarily to gain experience with the WordPress platform; it was recommended to us by a web design vendor who uses it to support many of the web sites they design for clients. If you own a domain and have a web host service that has certain sophisticated features, one can load the WordPress package onto the web-host server and essentially operate a full featured web site. WordPress is open source like Blogger and OpenOffice; therefore, it is free software and, like those other offerings, is amazingly well-done (given its no-cost status).

This particular package is their free hosting package provided by them on their web server (which is why the URL is *.wordpress.com). I am discovering the differences between what is offered by Blogger and this package; the differences are both negative and positive.

The graphical layout is restricted to about twenty different themes (in the free/hosted-on-their-site version; the limitations I am describing are not present in the software you would load onto your own web-host-site); the ability to customize these themes is limited unless you pay extra (I haven’t figured out any other way).

Our new blog for ranting and other reporting

This is another blog site (free) that we are trying; we expect to maintain the original site on blogspot as the primary reporting tool for the family and it will continue to emphasize photos from jhg