February 8, 2010 – 10:37 pm
I supposed an explanation and/or official announcement was in order so here goes. After over two years of running multiple blogs I have made the informed decision to combine them all in one. My guess is it will save me many hours a week from running blog to blog trying to maintain all those “personas” as-it-were. I don’t yet know if it will cost me significantly. I will say that the adsense numbers have dropped a lot but they may rise again.
If you were a reader of Postcards from the Funny Farm – Bless you! Please continue to read this blog. I will be featuring the same sort of psychology and self imporvement articles here at least once a week in the Psychology category.
If you read Dynamite Lesson Plan, I have redirected the old posts here and imported those posts here as well so eventually this will be their “Google” archived home. I am committed to writing a “teaching” category post once a week.
I appreciate your support. I will continue to write the same categories on this blog I used to from online diary to Blogging A to Z and updates of my music. Thanks for following my work.
February 8, 2010 – 1:40 pm
Charlie Ray and Linda were kind enough to ask me to play after them tonight at the Grind in Apple Valley. I played for about 20 minutes since my kids were there and running through the place. Truth is, Sarah was great about it and brought them outside but I didn’t want to put her and them at too much of an inconvenience.
I sort of envisioned it as a “covers” night since it was my first time playing there. Many great singer/songwriter song-lists were taped on my guitar but some highlights were: The Beatles, Kenny Rogers, Jackson Browne and I got to play lead guitar in a “trio” of the Song Charlie and I wrote together: “Land of the Living.” His musical cohort Linda has spot on harmonies in that song. I really apprecited talking to Sierra Donovan, Charlie’s wife after the show. She is also a Jackson Browne fan and a fellow writer/blogger. Sarah and I hope to see more of them in 2010.
Here’s a link to the venue. Charlie Ray and Linda have played professional country there for 2 years paying tribute to the classics as well as some modern stuff. Whenever they play live, I warmly encourage you to head out and catch their show. There is a pretty good possibility I will be playing the Grind again soon for a 90 minute set so stay tuned! Thank you to Charlie and Linda for recommending me and getting me the contact. Below is a map and a phone number to the Grind where I hope to show up once in a while.
You can hear my tunes and get info about my upcoming shows at Damien Riley Tunes on Myspace
January 31, 2010 – 12:39 am
A couple times I tried to access my blogs on my cell phone and the result was quite frightening. The photos were just as large as they were on my sites and I wondered about how I might make the sites more “mobile friendly.” My solution tonight has been to install and configure Wordpress Mobile Pack. This is how it renders now on the iphone (much better!)
Out of the three I checked out, this plugin worked the best. Of course, it isn’t perfect but it still offers access to my blogs without taking forever to load. I think everyone who is serious about blogging should configure it somehow, whether through a plugin or browser detection, to render a mobile friendly blog if an iPhone or android, etc. tries tuning in. It seems the future of the web is going the way of the mobile phone. If you want to capture all the readers you can, mobile’s now a piece of the pie. So far, most phone emulators return something like this.
You can check your website on the iPhone with this free app.
Update: The page renders very simply and unattractively on the iphone and I have chosen to opt for a simpler regular theme instead of using this plugin.
December 28, 2009 – 6:32 pm
It’s been a great ride so far discovering what this place is to me. I appreciate you sharing it with me. I have so many posts out there, this link will show you what is most popular. Thanks for reading:
