TGSoc Tech

Today’s focus was getting the “Not found” to work on the site. I found during a browsing session that some stale links are still out and about. So, if someone hits these, the proper thing to do is let them know and to suggest where to go next. Now, that was technical from a web/cloud…

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 400 times in 2014. If it were a cable car, it would take about 7 trips to carry that many people. Click here to see the…

A little time was spent, recently, tracking down the owner of the ship that wrecked in 1850 along the Oregon coast and tracing the history of the ship. First, the owner was H.D. Gardiner; the ship was the barque Bostonian. This post deals with details (see H.D. Gardiner post) that have been collected. There is…

Today, we published Gardner’s Beacon, Vol. IV, No. 4. Per usual, we have the page at the TGS, Inc. site with a PDF file; too, there is a blog post summarizes the contents. — One thing that we are researching deals with the namesake of Gardiner, OR. The boat was owned by Henry Dearborn Gardiner….

Today, the thomasgardnersociety.org web site is not available. The service provider put out a message on their status page, but there is not time stamp (what is with that webhostinghub?). Too, I noticed the outage about noon CST. It is not 5:51 pm CST, and the site is down. There were supposed to be regular…

The subject alludes to outcomes of Gutenberg’s contribution. Of course, we have seen that the influence of blogsphere has, for the most part, increased the noise/signal ratio. Yet, that which is denoted by write-once-compute-everywhere (or, even, Occam’s little ditty) has some appeal, as long as we recognize when minimization activities border on the unhealthy. Last time, we…

Earlier posts dealt with technical issues (configuration vs content) and general matters (content vs its management). These are not the same. Now, we are venturing into operational issues that stump the practitioner. Yet, many have worked out their process (see Hereditary Society membership, 2nd bullet). For the most part, these age-old techniques have ended up…

Let’s see, research and organization can make progress: marriage record of Thomas and Margaret. And, various attributes, and necessities, come to mind: consistency, persistence, … Persistence? Yes, media wax and wane. How ought we handle this? Earlier notes on content kicked the issues down the road, as we wrestled with technique (continual set of issues)….

Again. McLuhan’s little ditty can apply here: The medium is the message. Except, now, one might claim this: The configuration is the content. Not! Configuration has been of focus, of late. There are many things pending, like user rights. Too, though, we will get into the philosophy of genealogy, methods, pedigrees, and a lot more….

I’ll use this post to keep a running summary. The background can be found in the prior post: Alpha/beta site (todo list at the bottom of the post; will be moved to this post). Essentially, these entries deal with changing the website  using HTML/CSS, for now. There is one bit of javascript (more of this later,…