Tag Archives: Blogging

A Major Change in My Blogging

I started the Keener Living blog in March 2007, a few months after I retired. It now has over 800 posts, several of which remain popular. But, blogging has become a pain in the butt. It seems like I spend … Continue reading

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WordPress, Caching, and Choice of Themes

It’s nice that those of us who want to blog have WordPress available as a blogging platform. It is free and open-sourced and is frequently updated with new features and patches of inevitable bugs. But, it is not built for … Continue reading

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Back to the Basics

Keener Living now runs on a new, simplified design, and I need your feedback if you encounter any problems with it. Hopefully the commenting system works well, so feel free to leave a comment here regarding your thoughts. But, you … Continue reading

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Free Customized Thesis Skin and Genesis Child Theme [WordPress]

I have been a fan of open-source software ever since I first learned of it over 20 years ago. I do get annoyed at times when I see it promoted with more of a religious fervor than a focus on … Continue reading

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Various Blogging Items [WordPress]

As a heads-up to all subscribers, I plan to turn this into a personal blog in which I write articles on whatever topics interest me. I no longer intend to focus only on life management, technology, and learning topics, although … Continue reading

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Corrected: Blogging Platforms, Simplicity, and Speed

Update: Based on information I received late this evening, I have made some corrections to this post. The short version is that (1) the Google Site Performance data appears to be grossly wrong, and (2) I would do well to … Continue reading

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Custom Thesis Theme Code: YouCanHaz for Only $5

Update: My code is now freely available via this link. Several people have complimented me on this site’s design, and so I have decided to make the custom code available to those who are interested. (I am also doing this … Continue reading

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Dear Seth Godin: Have You Lost It? (Have We All?)

This morning Seth Godin posted an article entitled Add some {brackets}. It’s so short that I’ll repeat it all here: If you need to get your audacious proposal/clever ad/new project past your boss, go ahead and add some gratuitous brackets … Continue reading

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Keener Living 2.0 [or maybe 1.5]

Hi. Just letting you know about a few site improvements, so those of you who normally only view through RSS can check the site to see the changes made. The first item: after seeing it in action at TechCrunch for … Continue reading

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Four Months Free Hosting at Tiger Technologies

For about the past year Keener Living has been hosted by Tiger Technologies. I could not be happier with my choice of hosts. These guys are absolutely great. Right now Tiger is offering four months of free hosting. If you … Continue reading

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