Way back in January of 2008 I signed up for a little service called Twitter. The concept seemed strange but I gave it a shot. The more I used Twitter, the more it grew on me. It didn’t take long before I was accumulating thousands of Tweets. Passing the time… — Walt White (@waltw) January 24, 2008 The issue that I ran into was volume. Over the years I followed thousands of people. Some were like-minded individuals, others were companies …
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Several years back I hit a breaking point with Windows. I was working with a Dell Laptop that I had purchased and the Windows Vista experience was driving me insane. Between the quarks with the OS and the problems with the laptop in general – I was ready to call it quits and look for another computer. A good friend of mine sent me an older Macbook to try out. It didn’t have the latest and greatest hardware specs, it …
Monday was a bit of a rough day for me. I had just come off of a blogging streak that had lasted a couple of weeks and I was completely out of content. The desire to write just wasn’t there and I didn’t know what to talk about. I tried to force it by opening up a New Post window. I’d write a paragraph, hate it, then wipe it clean. I repeated the process a handful of times before reaching …
Over the last couple of weeks I’ve gone on a blogging tear. I managed to post every day for about two weeks. My meager visitor stats were slowly growing and it was nice to see people reading what I had to say. Despite the small uptick in website views, comments remained low. In fact, there was a small rise in the initial wave of posts but that quickly subsided. One of the most fun aspects of blogging is interacting with …
Way back on January 1st of 2009 I sat down and started a blog. At that time I had been blogging for about 3 years as co-founder of Stogie Review. The popularity of that site was growing but I found that talking about cigars all the time was beginning to burn me out. I needed an outlet for the random things in life that interested me, so as a New Years Resolution, I started Walt In PA. In the beginning …
For the past few days I’ve been sitting down at my laptop and telling myself that I needed to write something for my blog. It has been a tough process, coming up with topics that go beyond those that I would cover in a personal journal. Some days I simply don’t know what to write about. How often do you really want to hear about a particular gym session or that I haven’t lost any weight during a given week? …
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