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So in an effort to make the site my user interactive, I have enabled the comments option for my blog posts.  This means that you will be able to comment on a post, instead of using the sitewide comment option.  This should make it easier to get in touch with me about a specific topic.

Its near the end of June now and I figured that I would check in on my 2009 Goals and see how things are going so far. 

• Lose weight

This is a carry-over from last year.  I need to get down to 165-170.  I should get there, but again...who knows.  This one is starting to get important though, the longer I keep the weight on, the harder it is going to be to get rid of it.

Part of the great part about the internet is the ability to share information.  This is really helpful for genealogy.  Being able to share info and ideas about your ancestry is great, and the internet makes it even easier.  But in order to share people need to be able to find you.  Finding itowler.com just got a little eaiser.  itowler.com is now listed in the Genealogy Blog Finder. 

One of the great things about using a CMS like Drupal is that you can add new "features" to a site by installing a module.  I was (and still am) using the Tagadelic module, which creates a list of the blog topics that I have.  The terms in the list are then scaled in size based on the number of blog posts that have been flagged with that term.  If you look to your right, You can see that the term "Genealogy" is big, and the term "pi Day" is not.  I

Wow, 2008 flew by.  The year has passed, and I did not even notice.  Lots going on this year, but its time to take a look at the goals I set for 2008 and see how well I did.  Without really looking very hard, I can already tell you that I did not do that great of a job on my goals list, so many of them will be carried over to 2009.  I will list the 2008 goals in blue below, and then a description of what I accomplished below that.

Well, I think that I have everything pieced back together again.  itowler.com has been put back together and seems to be working as intended.  I have been able to move the old site over to Drupal, and still keep everything that I wanted.  The "new" Drupal version has the following features:

Well after a few days, I have some of the site put back together.  The main reason for the update to the site was to update the software that the site runs on.  The site used to run on a CMS called Xoops, and I wanted to switch it over to Drupal.  I wanted to make the switch for several reasons, but mostly I am becoming more comfortable with the Drupal way of doing things.  In addition I felt that the Xoops platform was not moving forward with progress. 

So as you may have noticed, things at Itowler.com have changed.  I am in the middle of changing around the software that Itowler.com runs on, and for the next few weeks, things will be changing a lot.  My goal is to get the basic features back up soon, and then play around with the look and feel of the site after that.  Hopefully by the end of the week, the blog posts will all be back, and the a few other things as well.  The picture gallery, I still need to figure out how I want to do that.

I have not been as active as I would like (nothing new there) about keeping this up to date, but such as life.

I knew I was not doing so great about posting, but WOW I am really behind. I looked today to see how far behind I was, and realized that I had not posted anything for 55 days. Whoops. Things have been busy, but not that busy. I need to get more posted up here, and will try to “Catch up” in the next couple of weeks. I should have written 22 posts by the end of May, and As it stands I have only written 11, So I am a little behind.