Yet Another Blog
Within the past week, my brother, John, turned over administration of his blog, John’s Joint, to me.
John’s Joint first went online May 30, 2007, as a project John was doing for a contest where he works, Pikes Peak Library District (PPLD). (He is an IT support technician for PPLD.) When the contest was over and he had won an mp3 player, he kept the blog online, posting articles about everything from the newest software and operating systems put out by Microsoft to political satire and serious political comment. He even posted articles about the trip he made to help set up 70 of the nearly 200 computers that had been donated to Southwest Indian Ministries. (The three articles are here.)
John didn’t have time to properly keep up with John’s Joint, and so asked me if I wanted to take it over. When he asked me, I was in the middle of a project, creating two new blogs as spin-offs from Blog Diyiin Bi. I first said no, but after serious contemplation on the matter, changed my mind. So now, I have four blogs to find content for! Anyone want to be a guest author for any of the blogs? If so, use the “Contact” form on any of them and let me know. You can place links to your own website and/or advertise your offline business (or ministry, for Blog Diyiinby posts) in articles you write.
Some of the changes made to John’s Joint in the past few days include upgrading the blogging platform from Wordpress 2.7.1 to the latest, 2.8.4; changing the display theme; and doing a lot of SEO (Search Engine Optimization). There will be no substantial changes to the type of content – John and I are pretty much in agreement on politics, we both are “geeks” (see the About John page on John’s Joint for links to a couple of “geek tests” on which both of scored well over 90%!), and we both are Christians with very strong Bible-based pro-family values. And while articles I write for John’s Joint are more likely to be about the latest Linux software and Pentecostal doctrine rather than Microsoft software and Lutheran doctrine, John will still write an occasional article about Microsoft’s latest and the doctrine of the Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod. (And no, we don’t plan to have any theological debates on the pages of John’s Joint! Except maybe just for fun…) Both of us will also write articles on a wide range of other topics, including bragging about our grandkids. (I have six with two more on the way, and John has one.)
Other changes planned for the next few weeks on John’s Joint will include more fine-tuning for SEO, changing the header photo (John will be sending me some digital photos of the beautiful scenery in Colorado, including some of Pikes Peak and Garden of the Gods; he lives in Colorado Springs) and possibly changing the theme again if I find one that looks better among the 900+ free themes that are available for Wordpress.
The name of the blog will remain “John’s Joint.”
Looks like I have my work cut out for me.
May God richly bless you,
Pastor Marv
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