This is the personal blog of Walt White. I am a Drafter/Designer living in Berks County, PA. I have a fondness for Cigars, Photography, and Firearms. Take a look around and you may find something interesting regardless of how different your hobbies may be from my own.
Having been a cigar blogger for more than four-years, it is not uncommon for Stogie Review to receive questions on how to handle reviews and articles being republished, without permission. Under most circumstances this type of problem is the direct result of a scraper site. To make our blogs convenient, we package our work into [...]
Over the past couple of months I have been doing my best to regularly participate in creative writing groups across the web. I not only find it enjoyable to write in a fictional fashion, I also enjoy reading from the huge pool of short stories. Both Fiction Friday, by Write Anything, and #FridayFlash, by JM [...]
Being a new father, one of the things that I’ve quickly learned is that being able to multi-task is a must-have skill. No matter what my wife and I are doing, when my daughter needs our attention we must set down our tasks and tend to her. Some activities, such as reading or watching tv, [...]
As I’ve said in the past, I am a fan of Darren Rowse and ProBlogger. I subscribe to the ProBlogger RSS feed and for a fair amount of reading throughout the week. A couple of weeks ago, Darren had a guest post outlining the thirty bloggers to watch in 2010. The following week, he posted [...]
At the end of 2008, I decided that it was time to stop procrastinating and create a personal blog to use as an outlet for things that did not fit on Stogie Review. For months I had put it off, even though I had roughly two weeks worth of articles written and waiting. I decided [...]
One of the most appealing things about my personal blog, is that it can be anything that I want it to be. One week I can talk about books I plan on reading, and the next I can talk about dreaming about a crypt in my basement. The freedom of choice in regards to content [...]
Not terribly long ago there was a new service that hit the internet and spread like wildfire. Google announced a project called Google Wave and before long, it seemed as though everyone on Twitter was mentioning it. Not having invested any time into trying to acquire an account, I thought I would wait until after [...]
Some time ago I posted about falling into routines. In that one particular post I talked about how I always seemed to be watching the same re-runs on television before getting dinner started. Similar routines exist elsewhere in my life as well, especially when it comes to the internet. Each day I get to work [...]
As my New Years resolution in 2009, I stopped procrastinating and started a personal blog. It was something I wanted to do for some time and coming up with a New Years resolution was just the motivation I needed to get my butt into gear. Because this site is of a personal nature, I didn’t [...]
Well folks, March has come to a close and its time to take a look at the statistics to see if were reached my goal. Unfortunately, we came up a little short on comments this month. On the other hand, we were well over my visits goal! I would like to thank everyone for visiting, [...]
As Twitter becomes more and more prominent in the everyday lives of internet users, it becomes a more appealing venue for spammers. Being a bit of a twitter addict myself, I have seen a steady increase of junk follows. These junk follows, as I refer to them, are spam bots or people with an agenda [...]
photo credit: cogito ergo imago After exceeding my goal for January, I was a little worried about increasing the numbers for a shorter month. It seems that I must be doing something right as we exceeded my expectations once again. My comment goal looked like it wasn’t going to be met until I made mentioned [...]
photo credit: f.kuraken Those of you that follow me on twitter, may be aware that I had a goal for my first month with this personal blog. In one months time I wanted to reach a set number of approved comments and visits here to Walt in PA. I’m happy to announce that we reached [...]
A little more than a year ago Jerry, from the Stogie Review, and mentioned to me that he was using this service called Twitter to keep up with friends and co-workers. He explained it in such a way that I viewed it as a sort of large chat room from my old AOL days. I [...]
photo credit: jakemohan When I started this blog, I wasn’t sure just how often I planned on posting. I thought of trying to get myself in the routine of posting three times per week, with the possibility of a link roundup on Sunday. That hasn’t held true for this month, I’ve been going full tilt [...]
