Notepad and Netscape New Year’s Eve 1-9-9-5 We have better plans tonight. It was a cold and windy one, that night of Dec 31, 1995. OK, actually I have no idea if it was cold or windy. What I do remember is that my wife was 7+ months pregnant with out daughter, so we were [...]
I’m happy to say to I did beat my goal of averaging a post a week this year. It’s a far cry from the heyday of this site, but it’s something. Anyway, here are my favorite posts of the year, for varying definitions of favorite. In my case, they are either posts I particularly liked, [...]
If anybody actually visits this site (versus reading in a feed reader) you may have noticed that for the first time in this century, I’ve removed any reference to homeschooling from the tag line. With one kid in college, and the other waiting for SAT scores which she is very confident are higher than her [...]
If you read my ramblings via a feed reader please resubscribe now with this link. http://www.odonnellweb.com/feed/ Google’s Feedreader service is on a death watch and odds are it will stop working entirely before too long. I was redirecting my feed through it, so odds are your link goes through Google. Thanks. The Management.
This will probably end up being a recurring series. One of the dangers of the “Related Posts” feature is that is occasionally dredges up posts I’d rather not remember. Take this as an example. Yikes!
While downloading the first two episodes of Season 2 of The Walking Dead (my DVR didn’t get them for some reason) I went down the rabbit hole of clicking random posts in the “Possibly Related Posts” list. This blog used to be good. I found funny writing, I found epic fiskings of stupid homeschool related [...]
After numerous attempts to validate my sense of humor in the Free-Lance Star cartoon caption contest, I have finally made the Final 4. Please click through and vote for the one starting with, “Finally, somebody who understands…” http://blogs.fredericksburg.com/toontalk/2012/02/08/caption-contest-156-finalists/ If you don’t think mine is the funniest, vote for it anyway Voting ends at noon on [...]
So this is how a blog dies; not with thunderous applause, but with a whimper. (Apologies to Natalie Portman…) This is a graph of O’DonnellWeb traffic, going back to 2005 when I first started using Google Analytics.. The high water mark was March 2006 – with almost 10,000 visitors. It’s been 10-15% of that throughout [...]
O’DonnellWeb will be 16 years old on 12/31/2011. It’s hard to believe I’ve been writing here for 16 years. It’s even harder to believe that anybody reads. The archives only go back to 2001. The earlier stuff is lost. I probably should be thankful for that. The story of how O’DonnellWeb came to be. (This [...]
What was I writing about during June in past years? 2002: We learned our (then) six year old daughter had 1337 skills. I wrote a blog post about PureSim baseball, which led to Mike Masnick leaving a comment about Out of the Park Baseball. Mike and I became friends, and I eventually ended up working [...]
Pretty much my entire homeschooling reading list is in this post. These lists are often link bait. This one may be too, but the author at least took the time to poke around each site, which is more than most of them do. # O’DonnellWeb: Not everything Chris O’Donnell (no relation) posts up here has [...]
This is the day where I express my appreciation, gratitude, and utter surprise that anybody hangs around here. So thank you, to both of you Now say something in the comments!
I don’t track my site updates closely, but the last time I did a major redesign was 9/2006, and I called that one 10.0. So that makes this O’Donnellweb 11.0. I wasn’t planning on redoing the site today. It just sort of happened. If you are reading this on Google Reader or some other feed [...]
My consulting site (which you probably didn’t even realize existed) has been languishing from a lack of attention. The domain had no Goggle juju and probably never will. ODonnellWeb has lots of Goggle juju. So I decided that I should integrate the consulting site here, yet set it up so that it’s somewhat difficult to [...]
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