My great-great grand uncle, Stephen F. Fleharty, may have been the first blogger.
Although it was common practice for soldiers in the Civil War to write regular letters home or to the local newspaper editors, Fleharty did one better.
He actually authored his own column, “Jottings from Dixie”. Like today’s bloggers, perhaps he [...]
Entries from December 2008
First Blogger?
July 25th, 2003 · No Comments
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UserLand Trackback Test
July 25th, 2003 · No Comments
So what the heck is a TrackBack and what is it used for? Read the MT manual’s definition page for TrackBack. Here’s SixApart’s specification for it. A couple of different definition pages here and here (Tom Coates).
Here’s a working example at Mitch Kapor’s site.
UserLand has a definition of how they [...]
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Background Image Repeating
July 25th, 2003 · No Comments
Have you found a great graphic that you’d like as your webpage background? Only one problem, once you put it on the page, it repeats across when you only wanted to see it once.
Here’s the fix. Insert this into the head section of your html page. That’s the part where the title [...]











