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Give me a break!

I hear now the board that’s used in a classroom can’t be called a black board or a white board. From what I understand, it’s derogatory to blacks or to whites if you use that kind of descriptive words – it’s either chalk board or marker board.

I guess it’s a good thing that there’s not anyone that might be traumatized by the use of the words chalk or marker.

I don’t know what you would call the boards then.

Read the rest of this October 20, 2004 post (recovered February 26, 2011).

A few years back, when moving the blog location, I lost many of my older blog posts and images. Recently, while exploring the Internet Archive WayBackMachine, I discovered much of what I had lost.  I’ll be restoring the lost material and will share some of the better “recovered blog posts.”

Today, I found and recovered my very first blog post – and have posted it here on the date it was originally published, September 14, 2004.  It was recovered from the Internet Archive’s WayBackMachine.

As best as I can tell, I abandoned Skedaddle’s Log after only a very few blog posts.  During the next month, I established 3 niche  blogs and North Farnham Freeholder, with all but that very first post moved to it.

I had been trying to make some income online for a while. At the time there was no way to place ads on blogspot  (which was also known as blogger).  After looking at several different blogging platforms, I decided to self-host and use WordPress, moving North Farnham Freeholder to the web host I had been using for a while.

A couple of years later, Exit78 was established, with many of the old posts being moved to exit78.com/weblog.  Then, in early 2009, my blogging at Exit78 was moved to the root directory, exit78.com.  Unfortunately, I made a change that wouldn’t let me access the original Exit78 location and, when I tried to fix that, I ended up losing many of the older posts.

I’ve been able to recover quite a few over time and, yesterday, found that many that hadn’t been recovered were available on the Internet Archive WayBack Machine.  I’ll be recovering those, republishing them here on Exit78 at their original publish date.

Do remember when you first started blogging?

Do you still have or can you find your very first blog post?

A lot of bloggers choose to blog anonymously, using a pseudonym or part of their name instead of their full name. Others choose to blog in full view, using their real names.

In Anonymous Blogging 101: a Quick and Dirty Primer – a  July 2010 guest post on Darren Rowse’s ProBlogger –  Treacle from The Lingerie Addict expounds on three reasons for anonymous blogging

1. Privacy & Safety
2. Honesty
3. Personality and character

Treacle also also writes:

The only foolproof way to keep from being found out is to never blog at all. Therefore, you should start blogging under the assumption that you’ll be discovered one day. It’s depressing, I know, but it’s important to think about. One day, someone will recognize you and very possibly expose you. So, before blogging about anything, think about the potential consequences of that exposure. Whether it’s losing your jobs, losing your kids, or losing your freedom be prepared for the worst possible outcome.

Anonymous blogging is not a free pass to be an asshole. Aside from the possibility that you’ll eventually be found out (see above), you are what you blog. Nice, nasty, or in between the people you attract are going to reflect what you write.

When I first started blogging, way back in 2004, I did like many others, posting my blog anonymously.  Then, at some point, I decided to use my name instead.  I remember reading the pros and cons of anonymous blogging and came down on the side of blogging in full view.

So far as my personality and what I’m willing to say online, I’ve found that there is very little difference in how I blog now compared to when I was blogging anonymous.

I’d be interested in hearing the thoughts of others on anonymous blogging.

The photo above was taken on July 30, 2010.  The one below, from a spot a little to the north down the street, was taken by John Vachon in April 1942.  The four buildings in the upper photo are the Turner House, Assay Office, City Drug and the County Courthouse, which was later turned into the plush Hotel Meade.  At the time John Vachon took his series of photos, the town had 12 residents.

Assay Office – While  most gold is 80% to 95% pure, some of Bannacks’s gold assayed as high as 99.5%. Gold scales could be found in every establishment because most services were paid for in gold. Along with being an assay office, the building also served as the Oliver Stage Station and a butcher shop.  Photographer John Vachon’s notes referred to it as a former bank.

City Drug Store – In addition to it’s use as a drug store, the building was at various times a general store, assay office, and school for a time when the regular school was in disrepair.

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Bannack, Montana was founded in 1862 after a major gold discovery.  It served as the capital of Montana Territory briefly during the civil war.  The last residents left in the 1970s.

“Images from Bannack” are from July 30, 2010, our third visit to Bannack.

We have somewhere in excess of 8 inches right now. Other areas got a lot more snow than we did.

It should all melt over the weekend as we have warmer temperatures on the way.

I got my class out of the way early today because of the impending/ongoing inclement weather and came home before noon.

Solar activity continues to tend far lower than normal in a number of different parameters.

We have certainly had more of a taste of winter this year than we do most years.  Looks like the next week is more snow or other cold precipitation. 

The TV weatherman wouldn’t predict how much.

He just said it would be “plowable.” 

A few photos from today:

I’ve tried a little bit of video effects editing with this short clip.  Check it out.  

The  storm was supposed to go south and we were only to get a trace.  

Two more winter weather systems in the pipeline.