Category Archives: Challenge 1 – Start a Blog
Freelancing and Cleaning up Skillful Means
I have decided to take the plunge and continue what I had done a year ago. Life gave me an opportunity for a nine months period and I took it and learned much from it. Now I have decided to take a different path. Although the opportunity was wonderful, I was missing the ability to [...]
Family Happenings and a Server Down
Life has taken many twists and turns over the last few days. I’m coping, but it seems like I will be taking another trip, and possibly more soon after that. Like does that, don’t it? Also the web server that serves this blog had a hard time coming back up after an update. It took [...]
Skillfulmeans 11 months old, and 9 months of writing
It is kind of strange. It is almost a year later and I’m sitting on my deck. It was almost a year ago that I started this blog. It began one spring… It began one spring, the choices that were shown to me weren’t really what I wanted to do, but they started to make [...]
Trying New Tools: Google Analytics – Welcome New Friends From Around the World!
It has been a little over two months since I decided to go solo and move my humble blog from the confines of WordPress.com to my own hosted server. I have mentioned that although the move requires more of the administrative part of keeping a blog and server to me, the move also allowed me [...]
Where has the time gone? Skillful Means Turns 8 Months Old
I just checked my trusty calendar, scratched my head, looked back at my post counter for this blog, and took out my calculator to double check. It was by accident when I decided to check how old Skillful Means is (I do this based on the number of posts) on the day it turned 8 [...]
More updates to the Skillful Means site – Under Construction
I have made some more updates to the new blog site. Hopefully, they have not been too disruptive, but along with the changes there has been some things that have broken. I’m hoping that these changes will not be too much of an annoyance and will allow for more useful functionality in the upcoming days [...]
So how is what different? – Tales of the blog: How to make a blog writer blush in one easy lesson.
I was going to look back on my post and perhaps take a view of how my writing has changed because of this or that in this post. First, I want to tell you about a feature I mentioned a ways back that I had added to this blog as a curiosity back when I [...]
Welcome to the new “Skillful Means…”
I have been thinking about a move for a while… I’m still getting the kinks worked out on the new site and I am considering some new features… For the most part things should look only a little different… I’m hoping the look and feel is a little more relaxing and readable… It has been [...]
