Bloviations

But I appear to be having a severe deficit of motivation.
I’m sure it’ll clear itself up as Spring comes along.
Thanks!

March 9th, 2010 | Tags: Blog Navel-Gazing, BrockNet, BrockNet Blogs | Category: Blog Navel-Gazing, BrockNet | Leave a comment

…Except there isn’t.
So, I have this idea for an iPhone app. It’s not groundbreaking or even anything more than maybe ten people would want.
The idea: A BrockNet app.
The specifics: It would provide access to all BrockNet blog posts with ability to comment and access to writers’ Twitter/Facebook feeds.
It doesn’t sound very complicated. And [...]

January 24th, 2010 | Tags: BrockNet, iPhone app, Technology | Category: BrockNet, Social Networking, Technology | Leave a comment

It’s a new year. And that means new goals. Many of my goals are the same as last year…Goals that I’ve failed at achieving. But, we never let failure stop us from trying to succeed. We’d really never get anything done if we did!
There’s a number of things I want to do this year.
Writing: [...]

January 1st, 2010 | Category: 2010 Elections, 2010 Goals, Activism, Arts, Bicycling, BrockNet, Car-Free, City of Jacksonville NC, Commuting, Day Trip, Fat Challenge, Fitness, Food Blogging, Jacksonville, NC, North Carolina, Onslow County, NC, Photography, Photos, Recreation and Parks Commission, Trails and Greenways Commission | Comments (4)

Have no fear, friends. Regular blogging will be returning to Bloviations soon.

November 28th, 2009 | Tags: Blogging, BrockNet | Category: Blog Navel-Gazing, BrockNet | Leave a comment

Onslow Memorial Hospital (Twitter, Facebook) is seeking to pay mommy-bloggers and not offering equal opportunities to dads.
It’s a move I’ve called sexist, ignorant and foolish.
Certainly, moms have a particular perspective on raising children. Certainly, in Jacksonville and Onslow County moms have to deal with particular issues that other moms (you know, the non-married-to-military kind) don’t. [...]

October 7th, 2009 | Tags: Bloggers, BrockNet, Jacksonville, NC, Onslow County, NC, Onslow Memorial Hospital, Social Networking, Writing | Category: Bloggers, BrockNet, Jacksonville, NC, Onslow County, NC, Social Networking, Writing | Comments (8)

Here’s a preview of some upcoming blog posts:
– Jacksonville City Council Candidates’ Yard Signs and What They Say About The Candidates and Voters
– Jacksonville City Councilman Jerome Willingham Learns Not to Mess with Lindell Kay from the Jacksonville Daily News
– Day Trip to Duplin Winery
– A Failure in Commuting by Bicycle
Have [...]

October 3rd, 2009 | Tags: Blog Navel-Gazing, BrockNet | Category: Blog Navel-Gazing, BrockNet | Comments (2)

It’s been more than six months of full-time bicycle commuting and I’ve lived through near-misses by inattentive drivers, being yelled at and Jacksonville’s less-than-stellar bicycling environment. And, while I haven’t used the bicycle for enough other-than-commuting trips, I will be as the weather gets better.
I’m going to stop publishing the weekly riding reports. They’ve [...]

March 2nd, 2009 | Tags: Bicycle Commuting, Bicycling, BrockNet, Car-Free, car-free commuting, Commuting, Work Week in Review | Category: Bicycling, BrockNet, Car-Free, Commuting, Work Week in Review | Leave a comment

Ms. Steinfeld recently wrote a guest post at Thordora’s Spin Me I Pulsate blog.
The subject of her post, cyber stalking, is something I’ve never had to deal with, as I have always written online by my given name. I do so for two reasons:

I believe it lends more creditibility to my writing
It requires that I [...]

January 15th, 2009 | Tags: Blog Navel-Gazing, Bloggers, BrockNet, City of Jacksonville, Family, Freedom ENC Communications, INC, Internet, Jacksonville Daily News, Relationship, United States House of Representatives, United States Senate | Category: Blog Navel-Gazing, Bloggers, BrockNet, City of Jacksonville NC, Family, Freedom ENC Communications, INC, Jacksonville Daily News, Relationship, Uncategorized, United States House of Representatives, United States Senate | Comments (2)

In a recent post, Delmer asked folks if they wanted to be interviewed by him. Being the attention hound that I am, I quickly volunteered.
Delmer’s questions, and my answers, are below.
You have recently taken up bicycling as your only (primary?) way of getting around. What inspired you to do this?

Mostly, it was the cost. Car [...]

January 9th, 2009 | Tags: Delmer Wells, Interview questions, What's a Delmer Look Like? | Category: Bloggers, BrockNet | Comments (4)