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Before starting, I followed the advice given to me by bloggers and asked myself: What I am I going to be using this blog for? Since I don't really have the time to become a political pundit and don't care to bore strangers with my idle thoughts, I decided to create a blog for friends and family.
Launching the account was the easy part.
I entered the address of my e-mail account at the site www.blogger.com, then checked the availability of the blog address I wanted.
I chose a newspaper name that reflected the street we live on, then selected a template that determined what the blog would look like.
Then I made my first posting.
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With my wife in her ninth month of pregnancy, it wasn't hard to find something to write about.
I titled my first dispatch "An Anxious Time." I wrote a couple of hundred words about the chaotic state of our household as we prepare for our new arrival, then used the spell check function and hit a button marked "publish."
It's a bit of a shock to see your blog for the first time.
It looks so official, and yet you know the truth of its shaky beginnings.
Still, without the addition of photos, my white-type-on-black-background blog appeared a bit plain.
From my home computer, I posted a digital image of my wife shot at belly level, which completed the blog's appearance.
I still needed to post a profile on the blog - this is the tagline that tells people who I am and what my blog is about - and there were...
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