The Blackboard

Where we chalk it all up to experience

Steve & Mindy
Megan
Christopher
Cameron
Patrick

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
— Sir Winston Churchill

The Blogboard

Welcome to The Blackboard history page, otherwise known as the Blogboard. This is where we will keep you up-to-date (more or less) on current events in the lives of the Black family. For a while we tried writing annual newsletters but after hitting one out of three years, we decided to try another approach. Hopefully we can do better here, just recording things as they happen.

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Tuesday, August 29, 2006

The Blackboard is now available!

Ok, here we go. I've been spending the last several weeks worth of my spare time, which I have all to much of here in the winter of my unemployment, trying to expand my skillset into the web arena. As a "class" project I assigned myself the creation of a personal website. In the process I've pulled out about half of my remaining hair (which was down to about 75% already) but I've finally reached a point where I'm fairly satisfied with the result.

Of course, it's not finished yet. There's plenty of stuff to add. But the design is complete enough that I can just work on adding content for a while. The main thing, though, is that this blog/History page is up and running. Now we finally have a place where we can quickly record the occasional significant event, for the sake of anyone who is interested in keeping up with such things. Shortly we'll start telling some folks about it and see what kind of reaction we get. If any; shortly after that we'll probably have to take it all down again so we can stop getting those reactions.

For right now, though, I think it's time to get back to some of the many things I've been ignoring lately.

Monday, August 21, 2006

Ouch - I'm blogging

Having spent the last few years adamantly refusing to become a blogger, I have now finally lost my spine. Woe is me.