Sunday, September 25, 2005







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Sweet Briar Alumni Meeting

This weekend is unusual weekend because this is the weekend that my mom goes away to her college's alumni meeting. It's the same every year, but this year we aren't staying with a family friend for a weekend, like normal, we are staying with my dad. Usually my dad goes with my mom when my mom goes her annual college alumni meeting. So now, our family friend is going to stay with us for a weekend in October while my parents are away in Chicago.

Sunday, September 18, 2005

Success!

Well, I have decided on some successful porjects that were tested out in Bill's Multimedia Blog. The ideas that were successful, will be added into this blog. Some of the new things are, user polls, and posts(like this one) read aloud in English, and sent as audio (mp3) files for download on the internet, or on a Podcast.

Tuesday, September 13, 2005

Making a cooler blog

I have recently been looking at ways to make this blog more fun for readers. I have found a lot of ways. They are not all easy, but I have made efforts to get some of the cool services that I found on my blog. I want the three of you out here reading this blog that I really like this blog, and I have put a good amount of time into this. I really love hearing from readers (billhonlinejournal@gmail.com). I also have an RSS feed which makes it easier for you as the reader to view my site. RSS (really simple syndication) allows the reader to read new articles even when they are offline. As soon as you go online, your RSS program automatically downloads the latest articles from any website that has RSS. Note: to get it to download, you have to bookmark the rss feed. Just like you do any other bookmark. As you might imagine, it was an instant hit with news readers, and news papers. I read the New York Times aritcles for tommorrow's newspaper at six o'clock. Anyway... I have also experimented with reader polls. I have put some polls on my multimedia blog. The readers can vote, and view the results of the votes. It is pretty cool. Also, I have found a new and cool way to get the new articles to my readers if they don't like RSS. I have setup a way that you can subscribe to my blog, and everytime that I write a new post, you get the new post emailed to you. Cool, huh? I think so. I have really gone out of my way to find and deliver these services for my readers. I hope that you all take advantage of these different services that I have gone out of my way to bring out to you. That's all for now, folks. Happy Reading, and good night.

Monday, September 12, 2005

Email

I have just setup a new email address for my readers to contact me at. If you like this blog and want to contact me with fresh ideas, suggestions, comments, etc. you can now do that! The blog address is billhonlinejournal@gmail.com Happy Reading!

Sunday, September 11, 2005

Seven Minutes

Seven minutes seems like a lot of time but you wouldn't belive how little it actually is!
I can barely make it from class to class in time! The school is gigantic! I have never seen a school as big as this school is! Wow, I didn't have any idea how big the campus was until I stepped foot in it the first day. Usually I take a tour of the school before the start of the year, just so I know how to get from class to class. I got lost the first day.

The First Weekend of High School

Well this is officially the first weekend of school. I have been very busy. I have had a lot more homework, and that is a downside. As soon as I finish writing this post, I am going to go downstairs and do it. I forgot how much I enjoy the weekends. They were all the same in the summer, because I didn't have school any of the days, but now that has changed. That's it for now. Happy reading.

Saturday, September 10, 2005

My new blog

I have a new blog! It's called Bill's Multimedia Blog, and you can link to it here. I have been working on this new blog for a while this weekend. I am trying out Blogger's newest technologies on the new blog before adding them to this blog. That doesn't mean that I am not going to continue to update this blog. The new blog will strictly be multimedia. I hope that it turns out well. If you like this blog, take a peek at my new blog. Happy Reading!

Sunday, September 04, 2005

Five Mile Creek

Five Mile Creek is a cool little creek. It changes every year. This year has been an interesting year for the creek. It is more separated than ever before. 20... no 40% of the creek is separated from the main stream. The creek was where my dad played when he was a kid. He has said that the creek has not changed a lot since he was a kid. It must have been a great experience, growing up in Harbor. Well, g2g. Later.

More Info On My Vacation

Well I'm using my grandmother's old typewriter to type this original copy. It is almost out of ink so I want to keep this short and sweet. I love my grandmother's house. My dad grew up here in the summer. I am really, really excited about this vacation. It has been really, really fun so far. I'm going to put some pictures of Harbor Springs(the town) on this blog. Harbor Springs is a fun little town. *They have a new Internet Cafe which is how I am publishing this post.

Heading Upnorth

As I type this post, me and my family are driving up to Harbor SSprings for our annual vacation up north. My sister is sitting right next to me listening to her iPod Mini. My dad is driving, and my mom is resting. I have been keeping a watchful eye on my laptop's battery. I love the Mac, partially because of the battery life. Apple claims that my battery will last 4 hours at most, so I was questioning the battery gauge as I left the house. It said nine hours. Here I am six hours later. I have already outlasted Apple's maximum rating in their tests, but I still have 50 percent of my battery left. I am totally baffled about this. When I first opened up my laptop the battery gauge said I would have 288 hours. Even after this success, I know that 288 hours is not even possible. It only showed 288 for about half of a second before changing to 6 hours. I have also been powering my sister's iPod which has also been going on continously. We are probably 1/3 of the way there which means that it will be about 3 or four hours until we get there. I am really excited to go on this vacation. I love Harbor Springs, Michigan. We usually stay at my grandmother's house, but this year we won't. It will be great to get up there. The Harbor Springs marina has WiFi(WiFi is wireless internet), so I can keep posting my thoughts while on vacation.

Other Blogs

I have recently surfed through some other blogs on blogger, and I am surprised at what I have found. I feel like I've traveled the world after reading blogs from literally all over the world. I read a blog that a boy in Africa made, and I learned that in Africa, people make their own paint. How? I learned that they scraped off dirt from termite nests, ground it up, and finally added water to the powder to make paint. I never knew that. Un fortunately I also found a lot of blogs that were probably made by robots. They were nothing but ads. I wish that those people just wouldn't do it on blogger, so I reported them all to Blogger. Hopefully, the ad websites will be taken off Blogger. To put unauthorized web ads on Blogger is actually a violation of the Terms and Conditions. Oh! Another blog that I ssaw was a website that was for some town in Louisiana. It was giving lots of information to residents about the hurricane, Hurricane Katrina. It wasn't really useful to me, because it was so local. It was still interesting to see towns having a blog.