Ten years ago, on January 4, 2009, I registered the debradalgleish.com domain, to “claim my name” online. I figured that if anyone searched for my name in Google, my domain might be listed near the top of the results. Then, if people landed here, I could direct them to my other sites, like Contextures. Have you got a domain with your name?
The Name Domain
Fortunately, there aren’t too many other people with my name, so the domain was still available when I decided to register it. Otherwise, I guess you could initials or other identifiers, got get an available domain.
Apparently, I just put up an index page at first, with links to my other sites. Eventually, I installed WordPress, and started this blog on October 3, 2009, with a very short article.
There was a comment from my friend, Ken Puls, who was amazed that anyone could manage two blogs. Ah, those were the good old, innocent days!
Popular Posts
Since then, I’ve posted many articles, with Microsoft Office tips, gadget info, consulting advice, and other bits of info.
Overall, the most popular posts are my Microsoft Access tips, like this one, that shows how to hide the Date Picker Calendar in a data entry form.
This year, I’ll try to post a couple of times a month, and get a few more Microsoft Access articles done. I still use a couple of Access databases to manage my Contextures business, so that should give me some topic ideas.
Who You Are
And speaking about name domains, and establishing your identity, here’s a non-business project for 2019, I’m following the 52 week photo challenge, on the Dogwood Photography website.
There’s one photo challenge each week, and the first one is “Take a picture that tells us who you are, without actually showing your face.”
What would your photo show? Here’s mine – a shot of the bookcase beside my desk. That’s where I spend most of my time, and I certainly use Google many times during the day! That’s a Canadian version of their logo, with a moose and maple leaf.
The bookshelf holds my pivot table books, and it took a big chunk of my life to write those! You can also see a few of my notebooks (there are lots of others), and a few favourite cookbooks – I use those every Saturday, to plan our weekly menu.
Daily Sketches
The coloured pens get used every day too, to make a sketches in my daily calendar. I draw something that shows one of that day’s events, and am not hampered by my complete lack of artistic talent. It’s just fun to do something other than spreadsheets!
For example, if you’ve met my husband, you know that he looks exactly like this sketch of him, wearing his new winter coat. Those “high water” pants are a nice touch, right?
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Show Who You Are
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