I have experimented for a couple of weeks now trying to find a reasonable way to automatically post WordPress blog entries to a facebook profile. It turns out that the facebook “Notes” application can automatically import blog entries if you provide an RSS feed. Unfortunately, this duplicates content rather than directing traffic back [...]

This is my great grandfather’s WW1 draft registration card. Family members do not believe that he ever actually served in the armed forces. This document, however, provides useful about him.

This document was apparently filled out on 12 Sep 1918.
William Street claims that he was born 23 Jan 1880.
His age at [...]

I also learned about a new web service today… Gravatar! The name stands for “Globally Recognized Avatar”, and you can sign up for an account at the gravatar.com website. Through your account, you link avatar images to your various email addresses. Other websites, then, can query their servers to see if an [...]