What do you think? I’m thinking that it’s going to change soon, since it’s not as customizable as I originally thought.
I’m open to suggestions! Send me blog layouts you like and I’ll check them out to see if it’s copyable.
In keeping with the current theme of my life — “improvement,” I hope to be able to spend some time working on the design and layout of this site over the weekend. Don’t hold me to that, though, as there are a TON of things for me to do around the house and in preparation for our trip to St. Croix next month.
In the meantime, feel free to click on the “vote” button in the pane on the right. I’ve entered that photo of Barley in a contest, and I’d appreciate your support!
This is posted from my iPhone via the new wphone interface. Now you can be annoyed by me from anywhere!
(I expect to use this a lot during the State Convention.)
I like the new layout, but I need to figure out a good way to spice up the header area. What do you think?
You may have noticed (and if you haven’t, please take a look) a new “advertiser” in the sidebar on the right. I’ve added a rotating list of pets available for adoption through our local pet rescue agencies. You’ll find the city pound, the Great Dane Angel Network, and the Humane Society of North Texas listed, with pictures of available pets rotating through.
If you already have a pet, please remember to have them spayed or neutered, and to give them an extra big hug and scratch on the head (if they like that sort of thing) for me. 
One year ago on Monday I posted my first entry to this blog. It’s changed a bit since then, but I’m proud that it has been going strong this whole time.
Okay, you’ll notice a few new things around here starting today. First, there’s obviously the new layout. I decided that the old one had gotten kind of stale, so I switched to a new theme.
Second, I’ve subscribed to FeedBurner for all of the site feeds, including the podcast. You can still subscribe to the podcast in iTunes (and I highly recommend you do), but you can also subscribe directly in whatever podcatching client you choose.
Lastly, I had to kill the embedded player for the podcasts. I don’t know why, but it just stopped working, and unfortunately it stopped at the worst possible time for us. I had to scramble to find a new way to provide the content, and I think the combination of embedding it in the post (so you can listen in your browser) and using FeedBurner/iTunes for the podcast will do the trick.
PLEASE let me know if anything you really liked is broken now. I tried to change as little as possible with how the site actually functions while changing as much as possible to make it work better.
Thanks for reading and listening, we’re glad to have you!
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You may have noticed that there have been some issues lately with the podcasts. The software I’m using just released a new update, and I’m going to see if that takes care of the issue. If not, then I’m going to have to figure out how to get everything back to where it was before when the podcasts actually worked.
And I wanted to spend today at the Cultural District, but now I’m stuck inside fixing things. 
Update: I can’t figure it out. I’m going to research alternatives for hosting the podcast tonight. I’ll keep you updated.
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Okay bloggers, I’ve set the date for the “Blogger Summit” here in Fort Worth. Of course there are no planned special presentations or anything like that, I’d just really like to get everyone together to talk about the stuff we do.
Unless something drastic changes (which will of course be announced here), plan on meeting on Monday, October 1st at 7PM at The Chat Room Pub (I’m not linking to its MySpace page because it’s painful to look at; please finish your REAL site soon!). I see that Pete G. already likes it, so at least he won’t complain about the venue.
Hope to see everyone there, and of course my tens of fans are welcome as well!
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You may have noticed ANOTHER new button on the right, one that says “Donate.” That button (should you choose to click it) will take you to a page where you can contribute a little fundage to the ol’ Cowtown Chronicles blog and podcast. Needless to say, the equipment, webhosting, etc. it takes to run something like this isn’t free. Up till now it’s been a labor of love that I’ve been totally willing to pay for myself. It’s still a labor of love, but it’d be nice if some of the hundreds of people who listen to the podcast might be willing to drop a buck or two in the virtual mail via PayPal.
Of course you don’t have to, and I’m not going anywhere whether you donate or not, but it’d sure be nice if you did.
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