{"id":203,"date":"2015-01-03T16:49:36","date_gmt":"2015-01-03T22:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canoe.stephencoleman.net\/?p=203"},"modified":"2015-01-04T13:34:59","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T19:34:59","slug":"happy-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/canoe.stephencoleman.net\/?p=203","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cThe Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most temporal part of time–for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2015\u00a0C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0H<\/span><\/strong>appy New Year! \u00a0I don’t usually set resolutions\u00a0for myself, but I do occasionally set goals for the new year, sometimes achieving them, and sometimes failing to do so. \u00a0Ever since I launched this website \/ blog in early 2014, I’ve sort of let it slide to the wayside. \u00a0I’ve updated it occasionally as time permitted, and written a few entries off and on.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0O<\/span><\/strong>ne of my goals for 2015 is to put more effort into maintaining and updating this website. \u00a0I also hope to put more effort into writing, and finish up\u00a0Tales of the Canoe<\/em> at some point this year. \u00a0Part of the reason that I’ve not put as much effort into this blog in 2014 as I should have can be attributed to my frustration with the Word Press platform. \u00a0When I first started this blog, I sang the praises of Word Press as a blogging platform. \u00a0I lauded its infinite customization capabilities, and raved at how awesome it was to have so much flexibility in site design. \u00a0Don’t get me wrong. \u00a0I still love Word Press, but figuring things out and incorporating\u00a0my personal touch into this website has been very time consuming. \u00a0Overall, Word Press is an incredible platform\u00a0that makes managing a website and blog very easy for someone such as myself. But it’s not without it’s challenges!<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0O<\/span><\/strong>ne\u00a0the reasons that I’ve had challenges with this site and the platform used to create it, is due to the fact that I built it from scratch. \u00a0I have had to create everything from the background, to the colors, to the images used. \u00a0It would have been immeasurably easier to have simply created a blog on a site such as blogger.com, or even gone to www.wordpress.com and created a site hosted by Word Press. \u00a0Instead, I registered my own domain name and installed the software onto my web server. \u00a0That’s where the problem has been. \u00a0In doing this, I had to set up everything from scratch. \u00a0As a result, it’s taken much time and effort for me to figure out even simple things, such as how to customize the font and font size when writing blog entries. \u00a0I am not a computer programmer, though I do have a decent amount of computer software knowledge. \u00a0Anyway, I say all this to say that I’ve become more familiar with the platform, so you will soon be seeing some minor tweaks and changes. \u00a0You will notice that this font size is slightly larger than what I’ve used in the past – again – a Word Press tweak that I had to enable and configure! \u00a0I hope that everyone had a great Christmas! \u00a0Ours was busy as usual, with much traveling as has become the norm. \u00a0I’ve posted a few pictures in a separate blog post. \u00a0I hope that everyone has a blessed 2015. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Until next time,<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Stephen's<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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