Will it work this time?

Testing with the iPhone WordPress client.

In my previous test, I created a post using WordPress for iPhone.  Bird Feeder didn’t post a tweet.  Let’s see if this works.

The previous post, the Dixon Family Christmas Card, was the one-thousandth post on the Discovering Identity blog.  Many thanks for following, visiting, commenting, and otherwise supporting this ongoing investigation into the science and magic of Identity Management.

Thanks to  Charleston Primary School for a great photo.

I just added a Firefox plugin that:

Adds a button to Firefox which starts a new Windows Live Writer blog post prepopulated with content and title from the current web page. Blog the whole page, or just selected snippets. …

I started this post using the new plugin.  Pretty cool.

Yesterday, blogs.sun.com celebrated its fifth birthday!  Thanks to Linda Skrocki, our fearless leader in the Sun blogosphere, for pointing out the very first post on blogs.sun.com.  It has been an honor to participate in this important part of the Sun culture of innovation.

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In May, the Discovering Identity blog will be four years old.  A lot of water has gone under the proverbial bridge since our humble beginnings in May, 2005. With over 800 posts in the bank, it is time for a facelift of sorts.  Hopefully, this new look will be a bit easier to look at, more functional and with better access to the variety of information I contribute to cyberspace.

A few credits are in order.  Many thanks to:

• My son Dave, a web design genius, who introduced me to the Firebug and MeasureIt Firefox plugins that helped me make sure the HTML was balanced just right.
• My wife Claudia, for putting up with my late night sessions at the computer.
• My daughter Angie, mommy blogger extraordinaire, for my new photo.
• Greg Johnson, Ryan Thrash and SpiffyCorners  for the CSS-enabled rounded corners.
• Yourminis for the widgets that provide easy access to Flickr and RSS feeds.
• CodeLifter.com for the Javascript used to present random quotes.

If any of you have advices or critique, please let me know.

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No that isn’t my age … although sometimes my kids think so.  It is the number of entries I have posted to this blog since its humble beginning on May 13, 2005.  Now, almost four years later, this post is number 800.

In celebration, I poked around the Internet to see other things for which the number 800 is significant.  Here are my favorites.

The Atari 800 computer was announced in 1978, the year I graduated from college.
Shrewsbury, England, was founded in 800 AD.  That’s even older than I am. There were no computers back then. Al Gore hadn’t yet invented the Internet … or global warming.
According to the Urban Dictionary, an 800-pound gorilla is " An overbearing entity in a specific industry or sphere of activity. A seemingly unbeatable presence always to be reckoned with; whose experience, influence, and skill threatens to defeat competitors with little effort. In the software industry, Microsoft would be considered the 800-pound gorilla."  Yikes!

So that’s it for my 800th post, to close out another fine day in Mesa, AZ. Not too profound, but a bit of fun for me.

I can only hope the next 800 posts be as enjoyable as the first 800.  Thanks for stopping by!

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Today’s Geek & Poke cartoon describes my blog reading situation perfectly!

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