Where a person focuses their energy with respect to their online presence has been a point of contention with all of the social networking sites.  Let’s be honest.  I am the world’s worst about signing up for virtually everything on the Internet.  I am always trying out the newest toy and looking for the best [...]

It is just about that time again to renew the web site.  Of course this brings up all sorts of questions about whether I want to keep the current domain of paulmccord.net or change to something else.  It also makes me wonder whether or not to change my page to a static page or keep [...]

For those of you that have been trying to comment on this blog and have been unable I can tell you that I had a problem.  I have been so busy with life that I did not even notice that I had a malfunctioning WordPress plug-in.  I had a Google Friend connect plug-in that was [...]

I took the Twitter activity sidebar off the right side of this blog and replaced it with the Friendfeed sidebar.  This is because every time I send a Twitter message, it goes to the Friendfeed anyway.  Secondly, any time I send a Facebook, Flickr, Delicious, Youtube video, it also goes to Friendfeed.  I figure this [...]

This blog has been therapy for me for many years when things are bothering me.  Unfortunately with all sorts of stress from home and work, I have not really felt like arguing with people on politics or differences of opinions.  Sometimes a person wants to think happy thoughts and not sit around arguing politics.  Let’s [...]

View Larger Map I just tried Google Maps for the first time in a while and it is really nice. I was amazed at how well I could see our home in England when we were in the Air Force.  The above address it 34 Adastral Close, Felixstowe, Suffolk, England.  It is phenomenal how clear and [...]

I have been trying to decide what to do with this blog.  When I originally created this blog, I wanted to talk about things that interest me.  I wanted to tell the world about my faith in God and the payment his son has done for me with his death on the cross.  I wanted [...]

This morning I ran across a post on Friendfeed that proclaimed how Friendfeed was so much better than blogging.  He posted how he has thousands of followers on there and how it was real time for people to interact with the posts.  To my surprise, most of his respondents were in agreement with me in [...]

In the world you will find that everyone has an opinion whether you agree with them or not.  I frequent blogs, news pages and all sorts of message boards.  Sometimes I agree with the points of view and sometimes  I do not.  There are places that you can post dissenting opinions and others you can’t.  [...]

Oh no!  As I posted earlier last week I spent the entire weekend putting my blog back online specifically because I updated to the latest version of WordPress 2.6.  I just posted another post and right on the top of the page is says… WordPress 2.6.1 is available! Please update now. Holy Cow!  No way [...]