May 19, 2012

One Year Old Today

Jasetaro.com is one year old today. I launched this site on March 17, 2008 mainly because I’d out grown the laughable 5MBs of free web space provided by my ISP. I toyed around with free services like GoeCities, MySpace, Facebook and Blogger for a while and I wasn’t crazy about any of them. So after [...]

Spam Bots and a New Community

I mentioned in an earlier post that I’d been working on a few things behind the scenes… Over the last couple of weeks this site has been inundated by spam bots. In fact the number of spam comments has more than doubled over the last month. For the most part this blog has weathered the [...]

Happy Valentine’s Day

Here We Go Again

The forces of global warming are once again burying Dogpatch under a blanket of white… Current forecasts call for 4 to 6 inches of snow followed by freezing rain. I’ll be spending the day with a good book and new albums from two of my favorite jazz artists… Jane Monheit and Renee Olstead.

Puppy Sitting

The last couple of weeks have been a blur of hospital visits, doctors, nurses and restless nights… A member of my family was admitted to the hospital on January 9th the short version is their prognosis isn’t good. One of the few bright spots has been puppy sitting for my niece and nephew’s new dog… [...]

Light Blogging

Hi All, do to a family emergency blogging will be light to non-existant for the forseeable future. Cheers; Jeff

First Photos From My New Camera

I picked up a new camera this morning, a Nikon Coolpix P80. So far I’m impressed… Here’s a few test shots.

Site Updates

I just finished some behind the scenes upgrades to the blog. The changes include separating trackbacks from comments and adding threaded comments. Let me know if you run into any glitches.

Site Updates

Just a quick FYI, I updated the blog template this afternoon… The new template adds Gravatar support and is more “future friendly” than the old one. I still have a little minor tweaking to do so if you notice any glitches let me know. TIA

The Champagne Is On Me…

Whew! That was fun… I just finished moving jasetaro.com to a new web host. I won’t get into all the details I’ll just say that over the that over the last couple of weeks its become clear that my old host wasn’t going to be able to meet my needs, so I fired them. So [...]