Switching themes

For those who follow the small world of Surfing the Tao, my switch from Wordpress 2.1 to 2.7 went effortlessly but my theme does need updating. After some complaints about the difficulty of reading with the water background I believe I have found a good compromise. I hope this next incarnation to be [...]

Upgrading Wordpress – expect downtime

Aloha all, I am finally upgrading my Wordpress installation to 2.7.  I have been extremely delinquent in this task as I am still way back on 2.1.  So expect some downtime and weirdness here for a bit until it all gets settled.

May also see a new theme here depending on how it goes.  Been searching [...]

Twitter Tales

I have some friends here in Hawaii who, like many others on this remote and abundant island, choose to live unfettered by technology for the most part. They choose to live close to the earth, and close to each other, rather than close to a wireless signal. When you go to [...]

Notes from the Surf V

My regular readers will notice I switched Wordpress themes.  The consensus around the house today was that Darkwater is easier on the eyes; plus I think the background fits in with Surfing the Tao quite nicely.  Any opinions, comments or issues, please let me know.

Great audio clip of Bill Hicks on the Elite who govern [...]

Notes from the Surf II

Wordpress users may know what I’m talking about when I say it’s always thrilling to find a great plugin. Here’s to Sean over at Geek with Laptop for making my Archives dream come true.

It turns out that the father-in-law of the man infected with a treatment-resistant strain of TB who got on an airplane [...]

Welcome to Surfing the Tao

…and my new WordPress site here, with the intention of making it “Surfing the Tao” central.  There’s a huge learning curve for me, but I’m working hard.  Please feel free to link here or subscribe to my feed.  If you are looking for my old links page (especially if you had a reciprocal link), hang [...]

Blogging

A little off the subject for me today, but my brain is full of RSS feeds and tagging and widgets.  Blogging is a rapidly growing and changing world!  At least for my generation – hey, I grew up with Pong, I have a lot to learn!  As a self-published author I’ve done most of [...]