Cole's Notes - The Sunday Journalist

With Blogging a little light lately - I've been looking into the updating of Cole's Notes and my social pages - a new thing that will be added in the new year is this: Google Online Security Blog: Are you a robot? Introducing “No CAPTCHA reCAPTCHA”

Well, I'm relaxing in the backyard, cleaning up some of the technology, and re-thinking some of my plans.  I'm enjoying the time off, and the upcoming long weekend has got me thinking of re-vamping the job search.  More quality, and less quantity.  Right now, I'm spending an inordinate amount of time online trying to apply for jobs. 

To try and get Cole's notes back up and running, I'm working on getting some new systems in place to  do the blogging.  Right now this is the Blogger application on the iPad.  So I'm going to try and Blog a couple of different ways to see which looks the best on my site. For a first try - here is a shot from the grand opening of the new Chinook Centre Microsoft Store opening.  The machine is one of the new Microsoft tablets - and I'm going to add some more shots I did of the grand opening. The new store as of 10:30 this morning.   About 5,000 people had showed up to see the grand opening - the line stretched from the store all the way to the Apple store - which seemed to please the Apple guys....  

A brief note about View from the Plateau and my Paper Li accounts.  I'm cutting back on the material and time being done on social networks and blogging.  I'm tired of it - and increasingly the comments and material coming in to my streams is asinine.  So I'm quitting them and getting a life.  In declaring Social media bankruptcy, I will leave only one site open, and this is it.

My last post had me wondering if I should keep this Blog going.  The short answer is – yes I will.  It’s going to be a bit of a change to the blog itself and my career blog View from the Plateau – are being updated and syndicated.  I’m moving from an ex-blogger to a part-time blogger to help build my professional networks, and will be posting and sharing material here and at my Facebook and G+ pages. Time to start my changes to the systems to make this work.

I just posted a new article at View from the Plateau – which was the result of a phishing e-mail I got through my LinkedIn account.  And it’s got me thinking as well.  I’ve been posting and lurking on a number of sites, reading a lot of RSS feeds and spending a lot of time on email and Facebook, with the result that my blogging has suffered.  I’ve not even updated either for months, and there are two articles sitting in draft form that need to be finished.  The short form on the Twitter and reading the newsfeeds from my iPad has cut back on sitting down and writing long form posts.  I’ve also been lax in getting graphics done for the posts – as the linking of the latest missive at View ends up plastering my visage all over Facebook and Google+.  These new mini blogging platforms – and Twitter as well are moving to more and more graphics – and less and less text.

Out and about looking at a Christmas raffle. Modern playhouse for Christmas. - Today's Cole's Note from Blogpress Location: Crossiron Blvd,Rocky View No. 44,Canada