I will briefly mention that Mother's
Day was nice. I've been trying to have Michelle arrange for a
sitter so that we can go out alone without the children, or at
least without the babies. Perhaps we'll get some chances when
Michelle's folks are in town. Even Claire is starting to ask if
we're ever going to eat out at a restaurant again. Speaking of
Claire, we're in the middle of reading the abridged version
of Black Beauty. I don't know why I thought there would be more
human character development in this story. I didn't know the
whole story is told from the horse's perspective!
I decided to settle on using
LiveJournal.com to handle
maintaining these web logs in the near future. If you have
any
desire to do something like this news page but don't want the hassle
of writing/maintaining HTML (either by hand or with some GUI tool like
FrontPage) I would recommend them or
Blogger.com. They both make entry easy. The difference is that
for Blogger all entries must be done via a web browser and it must
have access to
your web site host. I don't think that services
like AOL or Compuserve offer web space, but you can always setup a
free web site at some place like
GeoCities.com. LiveJournal gives
you a variety of simple programs you run on your
PC/Macintosh/Palm/Unix machine and it maintains the log/journal on
it's site for you. Both handle the auto-archiving of older
news. Livejournal also allows others to post comments and followups on
your entries. In either case both allow you to
quickly type up
a little note and let them handle the timestamping, formatting,
etc. for your webpage. Part of the reason for the occasional long
intervals between updates is that you don't feel you have the time to
really "put something down on paper"--so to speak. That is, an update
like this one can take half an hour or longer. It discourages you from
updating frequently. So check them out if you're interested. You don't
need to know about writing web pages to use them, but if you do have
some expertise in that area, it can be helpful to enhance the look of
your site. Weblog'ing
(sometimes just known as 'blogging')
definitely rates in my books as one of the "killer apps" of the
internet. Your mileage may vary...
In closing I would mention that if you
lose the pointer to this webpage, you can just go to
(drumroll,
please) BilikFamily.com.
I registered it last week. I hope no Biliks are upset that I took
this domain. I think that many variations on 'Bilik' are still available.
Currently it'll just transparently show you this page, but you never
know if things may move around some day. I'll probably have it point
to my LiveJournal page and have my LiveJournal page link into certain
pages back here within mv.com. If all this is more than you wanted
to know, I apologize. At least when the format change occurs, you'll
not be totally surprised. I hope that the next posting will have more
family info and less
tech info.