Major makeover on the history blog. History Moments is up with new domain name, new hosting, latest Genesis engine and going stronger than ever. Click on the link or remember:
history + web + log = historyweblog
Add a .com and you have : http://historyweblog.com/
This is where my new blogging activity is going.
Over at History Moments, exciting things are happening. Remember this link:
http://his-moment.net/
See you there!
Here are some of my entries I would like to showcase.
| 2/6/09 | The Great Ages of History | How do I keep all the periods of history clearly in my head? Here's my classification from the Big Bang to the present. |
| 12/17/08 | Earliest Movies | This is an essay about Edison's first movies from the 1890's with YouTube examples. |
| 1/1/09 | Chess Blog Carnival | Bloggers submitted their material here to be showcased. I was very proud to receive their trust and support. |
| Ongoing | Accounting Advice | This is substantially completed. While not part of this blog, this site gives my views about many accounting and financial issues. |
| Ongoing | Churchill Stories | A book I'm writing about the world during the time Winston Churchill lived in it. |
This is a organization page for the first ever chess carnival in the history of the world!
Note that this is not the chess carnival itself. The actual carnivals will be posted on the first of every month. Details below.
Opening Move:
Each month a different chess site hosts a carnival. The host selects the best of recently-published blog posts. The different hosts bring diversity of selection and presentation. Then they publish listings of these posts with extracts, comments, and summaries, as appropriate. Sources include blogs and other websites with frequently posted new content about chess.
Our Goal:
to provide a showcase of the best posts being produced by the chess world. These range is from the biggest sites to the smallest; from the most famous to the most obscure. Writers range from the champion grandmasters to children just beginning to learn the moves.
Content:
Position Analysis, Opening Theory, Endgame Play, Strategic Concepts, Annotated Games, Chess Culture and Politics, Humor, and more. We look for the widest range of content to be submitted with the widest range of the blogs of the chess world.
How to Submit:
Bloggers can submit posts from their blogs for inclusion in the next Carnival here.
Submission Criteria:
1) Original material. Entries should go beyond posts that consist only of web links or of quotes from other sources with little or no discussion.
2) We do welcome controversial views, but please don't submit posts that are simply polemics on current issues. Writing about chess politics will be considered, but should involve significant factual content and analysis.
3) Articles may touch on non-chess subjects, but these subjects must directly relate to some matter that is specific to the game of chess.
All submissions are vetted by the host whose decisions are final.
Hosting a Carnival
The Chess Carnival is on the look out for hosts! If you're an established blogger or webmaster who knows your way around the chess blogs, maybe you could host a Carnival. Hosting does require a little work, primarily sifting through nominations and a few hours' solid work compiling the carnival. (Imaginative themes are always welcomed but not compulsory.)
Please note that the Carnival co-ordinator (email address below) has absolute discretion in approving, assigning and scheduling Carnival hosts.
Contacting the Co-ordinator
You can email the Carnival co-ordinator, Jack Le Moine, at
jack [underscore] pc [at] bellsouth [dot] net.
(Sorry about the annoying disguise of the e-mail address but in these days of webbots and spam and taking over other's e-mails, sadly this kind of stuff has become too necessary.)
or fax to 770-319-0054.
Kathy and Me at Church SocialCheck out all the stuff that is going on in the news. Here's my Table of Contents.
When I had to set up an account in order to comment on Susan's posts, I was confused. This may help.
Here is a list of the best entries on this blog.
4/3/07 | On Saturn's Moon | Artwork on depicting a methane lake on Titan by Kees Veenenbos, one of the world's top artists. |
3/20/07 | From Paul Truong | Original interview with America's top chess promoter. How to get attention for your chess club. |
3/16/07 | From Don Schultz | An essay on the US Chess Federation by the USCF Vice-President. |
3/13/07 | From Bill Goichberg | The President of the US Chess Federation compares the state of chess politics to previous years. |
3/11/07 | Pact with the Devil | A piece of short fiction. Susan Polgar actually did reject this story for her blog! |
12/27/06 | My Top Chess Moment | How I became interested in chess again after a hiatus of 2 decades. |
Here's articles published elsewhere that I found especially interesting.
12/18/06 | Middle East Summary | Best summary of the Middle East situation that I have seen. By Charles Krauthammer. |
This is the first entry in my new blog. I'd like for my friends and family to check in from time to time to see how I'm doing. I'd also like to share my interests. For years, I'd like to be a writer. I did not have the discipline to keep it up. Also, writing is lonely work. One writes something and hope that someday somebody will publish it and then somebody will read what is written. In the meantime . . . .
These posts will be short pieces that get published right away.
I had once published a magazine on the internet. I called it "Our Country Magazine". A ton of work had gone into it. Sadly, I dropped the ISP and the computer with my files on it broke. No back-ups. The only thing that is left of that venture is this blurb I had left with a zine listing.
http://www.mindspring.com/~jlemoine
(Link inactive 1 July 2004)Our goal is to be the premier journal of news and commentary in the region.
This publication started out in a a small town in Washington State. We now originate from Atlanta, Georgia.
We believe that leaders' public principles are more important than their private machinations. Look elsewhere for the 'inside story'; this is the 'outside story' of our times.
Editorial matter is accepted from the general public. The 'media elite' can write in, too, but beware! This is the unconventional commentary e-zine. Welcome to the revolution!
editor: Jack Le Moine
It was writing on sand.
I was encouraged by Shawn Bakken's blog. He was one of the players on the reality TV show "Beauty and the Geek". Season 1. I became so enthusiastic that I'm afraid that I became over-active in commenting to his posts. I noticed that he used WordPress software on a paid ISP server. Then the server dropped him and his blog disappeared. This sucked.
It was writing on sand - again. (Recently I learned that he had been able to save it - sans comments - hence, the link.)
I stumbled accross Susan Polgar's Chess Blog just a few weeks ago. I became a fan. She used blogger to run her blog. I figure that if someone that busy can do this, then so can I. I do wonder what will happen if blogger just quits. I wish that all of the files could be retrieved and downloaded to my computer. Maybe there's some work around.
In the meantime, this is a relatively easy way to put my voice out there.
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