Re: [Flightgear-devel] [OT] Aviation weblog: Land and Hold Short
On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 02:15:07 +0200, Boris Koenig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...how would you then call the following: http://www.megginson.com/blogs/lahso/medicals.html ? A brief lapse of judgement. BTW: talking of healthy presidents: Pres. Bush Senior did even do a parachute jump on his birthday this year, he talked about that on Larry King Live, whereas Larry King himself wasn't allowed to jump because of his health condition... Yes, I heard about that. It was a tandem jump, but still. I am sure you could attract some readers here by talking about the time when _you_ were a teenager ;-) All my friends listened to the early Queen albums, jammed jazz and blues, and (I'm ashamed to report) hoped that Ronald Reagan would be assassinated because we thought he was going to start WW III. Not much there to keep a blog going; certainly not much of a social life until university. I've noticed that you've provided this kind of tutorial on your webpage, too - how about also recommending one or two decent RSS feed- readers ? :-) I've tried Straw and Liferea in Linux, and prefer Liferea. There are some plugins for Mozilla/Firefox, but Firefox also has a simple RSS reader built into its bookmarks now. Under Windows, there are FeedDemon ($$, standalone), NewsGator ($$, Outlook), and FeedReader (open source, standalone), along with the Mozilla/Firefox options and dozens of other programs. Under MacOS X, people seem to prefer NetNewsWire, but I think there's also one called AmphetaDesk. After all that, though, a lot of people use an online aggregator rather than installing software on their computers. http://www.megginson.com/blogs/lahso/thumb60.html So, if you intend to maintain that type of contents you could certainly attract some interested readers, I think. Thanks. I'm going to try for some variety -- today, I posted about an NDB fansite, for people who log NDBs they manage to tune in the same way plane spotters log tail numbers: http://www.megginson.com/blogs/lahso/ndb-fans.html I'll probably do another more technical topic soon, maybe more of the rules of thumb. All the best, David -- http://www.megginson.com/ ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
[Flightgear-devel] [OT] Aviation weblog: Land and Hold Short
I have had little luck finding aviation weblogs (they're all about rants about politics, hype about technology, or complaints about teenagers' social lives), so a couple of weeks ago, I decided to start my own. So far, it's heavy on content on light on good looks, so it's probably a fair reflection of its author. If anyone here is interesting in taking a look, there are two ways to get at it. The best way to read it (or any weblog) is to add the RSS syndication URL to your desktop or online blog reader: http://www.megginson.com/blogs/lahso.xml That way, whenever there's a new posting, the headline and summary will appear automatically. If you don't have a blog reader or you prefer the old bookmark-and-click approach, you can find a listing of the weblog entries here: http://www.megginson.com/blogs/lahso/ The title, Land and Hold Short, refers to a common operation at busy airports where planes are using intersecting runways: a plane that's landing (usually a small one) has to agree to come to a complete stop before the intersection so that the other (often a big one) can land or takeoff at the same time. The title also represents the ideal of blog writing -- land a good idea, and keep it short. Unfortunately, I'm not really accomplishing that yet (especially the short part), but I'm practicing. I plan on posting an entry about FlightGear once I'm getting enough hits to make the publicity worthwhile. All the best, David -- http://www.megginson.com/ ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
Re: [Flightgear-devel] [OT] Aviation weblog: Land and Hold Short
David Megginson wrote: I have had little luck finding aviation weblogs (they're all about rants about politics, ...how would you then call the following: http://www.megginson.com/blogs/lahso/medicals.html ? ;-) (just kidding) BTW: talking of healthy presidents: Pres. Bush Senior did even do a parachute jump on his birthday this year, he talked about that on Larry King Live, whereas Larry King himself wasn't allowed to jump because of his health condition... hype about technology, or complaints about teenagers' social lives), I am sure you could attract some readers here by talking about the time when _you_ were a teenager ;-) so a couple of weeks ago, I decided to start my own. So far, it's heavy on content on light on good looks, so it's probably a fair reflection of its author. lol, if you add some of that sort of humor to your weblog, you'll certainly be able to maintain a steadily increasing reader community ;-) It's just a couple of weeks ago that I stumbled across a weblog on xsquawkbox.net, because of the IVAO/VATSIM discussion here on the list, that particular blog is maintained by the author of the X-Plane application that interfaces with IVATO/VATSIM networks - while his blog was definitely political, too - it did make for some amusing reading :-) If anyone here is interesting in taking a look, there are two ways to get at it. The best way to read it (or any weblog) is to add the RSS syndication URL to your desktop or online blog reader: http://www.megginson.com/blogs/lahso.xml I've noticed that you've provided this kind of tutorial on your webpage, too - how about also recommending one or two decent RSS feed- readers ? :-) (Haven't yet used that functionality much myself) Anyway, some of this makes really for some good reading: http://www.megginson.com/blogs/lahso/thumb60.html So, if you intend to maintain that type of contents you could certainly attract some interested readers, I think. Probably not only for real pilots, but some of this would certainly also be interesting for the flying FG community. Also, you mentioned somewhere that you'd have collected some links with rules of thumb, how about providing some of these links in one of your future blogs ? And if I were you, I really wouldn't worry all that much about the layout/design part: I didn't have any problems whatsoever reading (all) pages - so it cannot be that bad ;-) -- Boris ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
