Before the stroke of midnight on Halloween I am going to delete the old JLog feed. You are going to be flung into outer space by your severed umbilical cord IF you do not update the feed address which is now http://feeds.feedburner.com/jgen/icWw
I have tried to understand how Feedburner transfers feeds and I don’t think I do. Even if it does work I still have to inform you that you need to resubscribe to the new feed address. This is last call. I have no way of screaming into the ether (any more than I already have) to let you know where I am.
You know what they say: If you love something let it go. All you beloved subscribers, if you find your way back then I’ll know you really truly love me.
Other 10%, let us pray. Amen.
NEW YORK and PROVO, Utah, Oct. 29 /PRNewswire/ — Today Ancestry.com, part of The Generations Network, Inc., announced it has introduced the world’s largest online collection of Jewish family history records. Ancestry.com has partnered with two leading organizations committed to the preservation of Jewish heritage — JewishGen, an affiliate of the Museum of Jewish Heritage –A Living Memorial to the Holocaust in New York City that maintains the world’s premier Jewish genealogy website, and the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), an overseas humanitarian aid organization committed to providing relief for Jews in more than 70 countries. These partnerships will make millions of important Jewish historical documents available on Ancestry.com, many of which are online for the first time ever and searchable for free. These unique records, including photographs, immigration records, Holocaust records and memorials, can now be searched alongside other records already accessible on Ancestry.com, creating the largest collection of Jewish family history records on the Web with more than 26 million records documenting Jewish life.
Have you ever wanted to search and replace more than a single line of text?
All the text editors I’ve used will only search and replace one line at a time. And this is not always workable. There may be ways around that I haven’t discovered yet. If I only need to search and replace a few times, I’ll use the usual copy and paste. But last night I had a job to do that would have required doing it manually over 300 times.
What I found is a text editor called PsPad. It’s a great little (free) text editor, available in several languages and much better than Window’s Notepad (if you’re still using only that).
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It shocks me to realize how much of the life I take for granted is on my computer. Not anywhere on paper I can hold in my hand. Thousands of family history files and photographs, contacts, email, financial files … Thousands and thousands of hours of work. The thought of any of it disappearing leaves me breathless.
You’ve heard it all before. Computer crashes are not a matter of if, only when. Fortunately, my computer crashes happened after I started a serious backup routine.
Everything required for a secure backup plan nowadays is affordable and simple to use. Not backing up your files is inexcusable considering the potential loss.
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If you are using Internet Explorer and notice large gaps on some pages of this website and wonder what they are, they’re videos. If you’d like to see them, install the latest version of Adobe Flash Player. It’s free and it will take only a few seconds. Otherwise, switch to Firefox. Firefox will tell you when you need a plug-in instead of leaving you in a hole.
Ancestry.com recently launched the World Archives Project, its new public indexing project that gives everyone the opportunity to help index and preserve historical records. The indexes created through the World Archives Project will be free to everyone. Images will remain behind the paid subscription wall to cover the costs of digitization, but active contributors to the project will have access to all of the images that are part of the World Archives Project. Organizations can also partner with the World Archives Project and sponsor indexing projects. Ancestry.com will donate a digital copy of the sponsored index and images back to partnering organizations. The project is in beta mode, but here’s your chance to try out the World Archives Project.
Learn more …
I don’t know what you’ll use this for but I bet you’ll think of something.
Jing is a combination screen-shot and computer video-making program. After installation you’ll see a small sun image at the top of your screen. When you hold your cursor to it, out pop three smaller suns. This image is the entire main program interface.
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Not surprising, I have managed to get everyone thoroughly confused about where JLog is and where JLog isn’t. If you are using a feed reader, this is the address:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/jgen/icWw
which is the same address that you’ll get to if you click the orange subscribe button in the upper right.
I’m watching the subscription numbers fluctuate up and down between two feeds that don’t exist anymore. They’re just an illusion. This is half the problem.
As you can see, if you look close up, it’s going nowhere. That’s because I’m a dumb-dumb. Please resubscribe from this page, and delete what else you have.
Time for JLog to stop being such a country-hick and come into the modern age.
As you can see, we now have Archives and Categories. We have Snippets of posts instead of reams of obscure titles. And we have Commenting by other than email … (That would be you.)
It’s not everything. Moving entire posts would take months. So the snippets still go to the original pages as we’re accustomed to.
I would prefer a 3-column design so the main text sits in the middle of the page. (I’m working on it.) To comment from the html pages you’ll need to hit your back button until I can get permalinks put in. (I’m thinking about it.)
Blogging software is tough. Four days into this project I was feeling slain. Beaten flat to the ground. In the early hours, b2evolution and MovableType knocked me right out of the ring. Google Blogger wouldn’t let me edit templates if I was hosting the blog on my own site. WordPress is a comfy middle-ground so here we are.
Anyway, it’s been a long week. I hope this constitutes an improvement. I’m giddy with excitement myself.
Once again, you’ll need to subscribe to yet another new address. You know the drill … orange button. At the moment you may be getting redirected from an old address, but that won’t last.
