tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14746349687189191412024-02-20T18:06:11.792+01:00ExpectingrainyRainyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14922150579546173373noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1474634968718919141.post-84498915303321890472008-01-01T15:21:00.000+01:002008-01-01T15:24:49.343+01:00Trip to Macworld SF and NYC, Jan 2008January 12-20, 2008 I will take my two sons for a visit to San Francisco and New York City. Maybe we will find the way to write something here?<br /><br />We may also send some pictures to my <A HREF="http://www.flickr.com/photos/karlerik/">Flickr</A> page.<br /><br />KERainyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14922150579546173373noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1474634968718919141.post-19283882313877554212007-03-14T20:47:00.000+01:002007-03-16T12:34:33.781+01:00Tips for link submissionsI thought I'd say something about the way I'd like to receive links by e-mail.<br /><br />When I sit down in the morning to check out the tips you have sent to my mailbox at webmaster@expectingrain.com, I may find as many as 20 or 30 email messages, and I want to prepare the Expecting Rain front page with new links in maybe less than 15 minutes, at the same time as I am eating my breakfast cereal http://www.crusli.no/ and checking out the morning paper.<br /><br />My strategy is to skim the subjects and select those that seem to be most Bob relevant or otherwise interesting, judging by the subject. I check these links out and include them if they really are relevant or interesting.<br /><br />Secondly, I go through most of the other messages and use some of them. The rest I let remain in my inbox until later in the day.<br />At 0640 local time (CET) I publish today's page and go to work. (It's only a 16 minute walk, so I usually let my car stay at home, because I need a minimum of exercise.) On weekends I try to publish at 1000.<br /><br />Some days I find the time to add some updates from work, but they pay me to do stuff for them, not for me (or you), so this does not happen every day. <br />But I usually catch up with another update in the afternoon. After 1900 CET I save the links for the next day.<br /><br />My main point is this: Please avoid using the "Email this article" link on news sites. They too often send nondescriptive email subjects like:<br /><br />- NN has sent you a link<br />- NN sent you a link to content of interest <br />- Referred article from NN<br />- Check out this article<br />- canada.com Story<br />- nn has sent you a news story to read<br />- Article from thestar.com<br />- Someone has sent you a story from MySanAntonio.com<br />- North Jersey Media Group providing local news, sports & classifieds for Northern New Jersey!<br />- To see this story with its related links on the Guardian Unlimited Arts site, go to http://arts.guardian.co.uk (can't find the article!)<br />- To see this story with its related links on the The Observer site, go to http://www.observer.co.uk (had to use Search to find the article!)<br /><br /><br />What I would rather you do, if possible, is to send an email message like this:<br /><br />To: webmaster@expectingrain.com<br />Subject: The headline of the article<br />Message: http://thelinktothe article.com/page.html (the URL of the page)<br /> A short, explanatory comment, if you have one to propose.<br />Signed: thenameyouwantcredited<br /><br />That's really all there's to it.<br />Please avoid sending me the whole page, text, graphics and all.<br />Tips with the exact URL are better than just the name of the site.<br /><br />Some tipsters don't know how to get the URL of a page, so here's a tip for some:<br />The URL is the address of the page, and you find it in a field near the top of the browser window. It starts with http:// and so on.<br />Don't try to type it into the email, select it, copy and paste it!<br /><br />If you are on a PC that you don't have an email programme running on, I recommend getting a gmail account. If you need an invitation to gmail, please contact me!<br /><br />Thanks for watching this page.<br /><br />keRainyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14922150579546173373noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1474634968718919141.post-39866241695755694252007-03-09T13:25:00.000+01:002007-03-09T13:51:40.013+01:00Opening postWell, it's incredibly easy to set up a blog, especially as I already had a gmail account.<br />It's about five minutes since I read a test of different blogging tools, and this one was recommended.<br /><br />I may use this blog for stuff that does not belong on my site expectingrain.com<br /><br />expectingrainyRainyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14922150579546173373noreply@blogger.com0