Tag Archives: Blogging

Dec 29

Migrated to PGHDad.me

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After much consideration I have decided to create new domain for my blog. This blog, PGHDad.me will contain ramblings of all kinds from me a dad from Pittsburgh. I am so proud to be a dad, this is what life is about and what I truly live for. I also am tech geek and gadget guy. I have been using technology before I even knew it was a possible career. 
 
What will my posts be about, well, anything that comes to my mind and I feel like talking about. Our family is very close, I was raised in a close Italian American family that had Sunday dinners with my grandparents and cousins and also had a weekend camp with my other grandparents and cousins. We all spent alot of time together and still do.
 
We had a family generation until the third generation and always helped each out, for a long time we all lived in the same or close neighborhoods. I used to live across an alley from my grandparents.
 
This is what built a strong family bond for me and this is what I want my children experience. 
 
 
 

Nov 29

Blogging verse Private Journal

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This blog is public and as such I censor the content that I put online, I also like to journal and do that offline. I have read of people keeping their journals online but set to private and have and still am considering it. I think one of the reasons is that I really like the blogging app I use Blogsy and another is that the the journal is on the cloud and available to me anywhere I can access the net.
 
But, even if I setup the blog as private there is also a chance it can be access. Which makes me think who would want to hack my journal, reading my private entries is actuall pretty boring and is more for me as a theraputic act and hopefully for my kids later in life.
 
Right now I don’t know what I will do, I am writing more about loss, the loss of close family members we have and till are dealing with this year. This year turned into a very difficult year for my family as we grieve the loss of close relatives.
 
 

Oct 22

Why I Blog

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I have been professionally involved in technology for over 15 years. One of my earliest projects was implementing a BBS (Bulletin Board System) using Wildcat BBS for a business while the world wide web was in it’s infancy. I have set up networks and built database applications for small businesses when I started my career.

My wife calls me a technology addict. I have consulted with many Internet startups and large businesses concerning their technology. I never caught the blogging “bug” though.

This summer the company I work for decided to implement WordPress for the public Internet site and this was my push to learn this software and dive into blogging. So I decided to host a WordPress site myself and learn how to use it while testing a few plugins and writing a plugin myself. I have developed with PHP before but my speciality has always been in Microsoft technologies such as VB, .NET mainly C#. But my career never keep me isolated and had me working with Java on Unix though, I have been known to easily migrate between technologies throughout my career.

With my existing domain and newly installed blog I started to write posts, but what should I write about? I know all bloggers and writers in general run into this problem and so I decided to write about my family mainly and how important they are to me as well as just about anything else that comes to my mind.

This blog is my online journal, after all that is what blogging is. I have always liked to journal and to write, I feel it is therapeutic. So this exercise in blogging is for me and my family and friends, that is my audience. I will write about many different topics and hopefully will have my family write some posts if they want. My children can use this blog to write stories and maybe we can all learn something.

Why do you blog?

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