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Peekskill has blogs!
Our Blogs:
Ron Abbey’s blog: Red Devil Ramblings
Jack Burns’ blog: From the Streets of Peekskill
(Jack used to write the “Peekskill Runner” column for the Peekskill Herald. We asked him if he’d like to continue his observations in a new format and he enthusiastically agreed)
Our Friends’s Blogs:
Lynn Abbey’s (‘66) Blog: Face of Chaos
Dan Modica’s (‘82) Blog
You might ask: What’s a blog?
Well, it’s an abbreviation of “Web Log” and in many ways it’s
an online diary
A blog owner “posts” announcements, random thoughts, pictures, anything
at all, but, unlike a old-fashioned diary with a little key for privacy,
a blog is meant to be read by everyone.
And not only read by everyone, but most blogs allow readers to
add their comments to a post.
Here at peekskillhighalumni.net we’re always looking for new ways
to foster a sense of community among Peekskill graduates (or Peekskill
residents, past and present; or anyone who feels a tie to our city on the Hudson) and so we’re going to give blogs a try
Some of you undoubtedly know more about blogs than we do. If you’ve got your own blog, please let us know and we’ll add you to our list. But, for those of you who might not be familiar with navigating through the whole blog concept, here are some basics:
- When you click on the link to either Red Devil Ramblings or From the Streets of Peekskill, you’ll be leaving “core” pages of the PHS alumni website and you’ll need to use the “BACK” button to return to this pack (the BACK button -- that’s left-pointing-arrow icon somewhere near the upper left-hand corner of your browser)
- (Think of these blue-background, red-border pages as one house in the neighborhood called peekskillhighalumni.net. Clicking on the rectangular buttons in the red border allows you to visit the many rooms of this house. Our blogs, however, are next door -- in the same neighborhood, but a different structure.
- With some browsers, you can get around the need for the BACK button by opening in new tabs or windows.
- Try right-clicking the link. This should bring up a “context menu.” If you see the words “Open in new window” or “Open in new tab,” slide your cursor down to one of those choices and click.
- If you’re using a mouse with two buttons, try clicking both buttons at the same time when the cursor’s pointing at a link. It can’t hurt, and if you’re lucky, it will open the link in a new tab or window.
- Actually -- if either of the two suggestions above will work with our blog links, they’ll work with any link on any page anywhere on the Web.
- You can “subscribe” to a blog. Subscribing to a blog, that means you can go to a special page at a special site (sometimes called a “feed reader”) and see if there are new entries at any of the blogs you’re following. There are several places where you can learn to set up a feed reader.
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