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Most popular posts 2015

By Michael Coyle Posted on 27/12/2015 Posted in Blog Entry, Short Posts No Comments Tagged with #TrailHeadSelfie, GPS, meta, PLB, safety, snowshoe
Most popular posts 2015

The most popular posts on my blog for the year 2015 are, with one exception, posts that I wrote in previous years. I don’t know what that says about my blogging this year – perhaps I am getting worse or …

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Why I blog

By Michael Coyle Posted on 13/06/2014 Posted in Blog Entry 2 Comments Tagged with blog, meta, writing
Why I blog
Rapping with my 3.5 year old climbing partner.

For my 300th blog post I thought I would look back on the last few years, and write about why I do this in the first place.

Site Theme update

By Michael Coyle Posted on 18/02/2013 Posted in Short Posts No Comments Tagged with meta

Over the weekend I changed the theme of the blog. For those interested, the previous theme was Skeleton from Simple Themes. It’s a free, open source, responsive HTML5 theme based on the skeleton framework. The new theme is called Responsive from ThemeID. …

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A forum experiment

By Michael Coyle Posted on 05/11/2012 Posted in Blog Entry No Comments Tagged with communications, meta
A forum experiment

I installed a forum on the blog as an experiment in allowing readers to create their own topics for discussion.

ch’átyay katlaoz

By Michael Coyle Posted on 22/08/2012 Posted in Blog Entry No Comments Tagged with meta

Some relatives were in town and we visited the Squamish Lilwat Cultural Centre where I found my favourite plant. Very nice icon, kind of captures the prickly nature of the plant quite well. I’ve also seen the name spelled Ch atiyay but …

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On the end of the year and old and new things

By Michael Coyle Posted on 31/12/2011 Posted in Blog Entry No Comments Tagged with meta, musings

Some musings on the end of the year and what’s coming in the next.

A Call for Participation

By Michael Coyle Posted on 29/12/2011 Posted in Blog Entry 2 Comments Tagged with guest post, meta
A Call for Participation

A proposal for more participation of SAR members in online discussions.

Movember

By Michael Coyle Posted on 03/11/2011 Posted in Blog Entry No Comments Tagged with meta

A few years ago by partner’s dad died of complications from Prostate Cancer. It’s a terrible disease. Donate via Movember to stop this disease

Move to WordPress

By Michael Coyle Posted on 06/10/2011 Posted in Blog Entry 3 Comments Tagged with blog, meta, WordPress
Move to WordPress

The blogging wars are over, and WordPress won, deal with it. At least that’s what I tell myself. There’s lots of choices in the blogging world, but for a basic blog like what I write, WordPress is where it’s ad. …

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Housekeeping: social media

By Michael Coyle Posted on 08/08/2011 Posted in Blog Entry No Comments Tagged with meta, social media

On a non-SAR, non blog note, I’ve been using Facebook and Twitter a bit, mostly for the same thing. Every once in a while I come across an article on another site that’s related to what I write about, or …

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