I continue to develop my expertise in designing web sites for mobile devices. I’ve been dissatisfied with the display of my travel notes on my iPod Touch. Wide images would force the page width to exceed the limited width of the screen which is only 320 pixels. This made the page hard to read unless [...]
Should I move to the big city some day? I’ve been going to New York City once a month for this entire year and the long trips are quite a drag. Now that I have finished reading all the guidebooks on New York City, I have begun to read some guidebooks on Philadelphia, the other [...]
Yesterday I discovered what may be an unknown and undocumented Google search operator for listing the backlinks to your web site. A backlink is an incoming link to your web site. The number of backlinks to your web site is a factor in how well it will rank in the search engines. The Yahoo! Site [...]
Yesterday I made my tenth visit to New York City this year. On this trip, my mission was to explore the Upper West Side, a part of the city I had not seen before. As usual, I took the Susquehanna Trailways bus from Williamsport because that is the most convenient transportation method for me. On [...]
Today I drove west to visit Lock Haven PA, the county seat of Clinton County. This is part of my personal project to explore the region. I have several reasons for making these little trips: I am extremely bored and need a change of scene. I may need to visit various towns in the area [...]
I’m thinking about getting a cell phone. I don’t have a cell phone because nobody ever calls me. I really don’t need one. But now that I’m traveling more often it may come in handy in an emergency. I will probably get a prepaid mobile phone with a pay-as-you-go plan. I don’t want the recurring [...]
On August 8th, 2010 I went on a special bus tour to Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty. This trip did not take us into New York City. I left Williamsport at 5:00 a.m. and we arrived at the Liberty State Park in New Jersey at 10:00 a.m. We stopped in at McDonalds for [...]
I like to take my iTouch with me on my trips to New York City so I can listen to music during the long bus trip. I also copy my compiled HTML notes on New York City to my iTouch so I can consult it when I need to. Neither of those uses requires a [...]
On Sunday I got up early and walked along 51st Street to the subway station on Lexington Avenue. This was a long walk but I did get to see a nearly deserted New York City at 6:00 AM in the morning. I took the 6 train to the Brooklyn Bridge. This ride took a long [...]
Over the weekend I went on a special bus trip to New York City. This trip included an overnight stay at a hotel so I was able to schedule a show in the evening. I was also able to do something in the morning. The bus left Williamsport at 7:00 AM and we arrived in [...]
Today I found this article on http://www.reddit.com/r/Economics/, 23 Doomsayers Who Say We’re Heading Toward Depression In 2011. The severity of the economic downturn is already apparent in state budgets which are far in the red. With unemployment benefits running out and state budget cuts closing social programs you can expect to see more visible signs [...]
Yesterday, June 26th 2010, I made my seventh trip to New York City this year. My purpose on this trip was to visit some of the minor museums on Museum Mile, Upper East Side, Manhattan. As usual, I took the 6 Lexington Avenue Local subway from 51st Street to reach 68th Street Hunter College. I [...]
Today I went to Jersey Shore PA for a staycation. A staycation is like a vacation, except you don’t actually go anywhere. Although Jersey Shore is only 15 minutes from where I live, I have never been there. My brother lives in Jersey Shore and I’ve been at his house often enough but I never [...]
I’m back from my latest trip to New York City. The purpose of this trip was to explore the neighborhood of Greenwich Village. Greenwich Village is legendary for its associations with beat writers, jazz musicians, folk singers, NYU, and the gay community. I traveled to the city on a Susquehanna Trailways bus which dropped us [...]
Yesterday I made my pilgrimage to the East Village. To appreciate the significance of this trip for me, you need to be familiar with some counterculture history. Although Greenwich Village has always been the bohemian neighborhood of the United States, gentrification pushed the artistic community to the East Village by the mid 1970s so the [...]
I have not been blogging enough about my business. I have been blogging about my travels just to let clients know when I am unavailable. At least that is my justification for blogging about my trips. Recently I have been gaining expertise with Drupal, the Content Management System. Drupal is a web application framework which [...]
I had a great time on my trip to New York City yesterday, April 17th, 2010. The purpose of this trip was to visit the American Museum of Natural History. I was not particularly eager to visit this museum which is why I went to several other museums first on previous trips. But I was [...]
Yesterday I managed to cram three museum visits into a single trip. The main purpose of this trip was to see the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum so that is the first one I visited. I guess I’m becoming quite the New Yorker because on three occasions I had to give directions to other tourists. First [...]
I am still studying German. I have now read two books on the German language so I’m familiar with the grammar and I have a small vocabulary. I plan to go to Berlin for my vacation some time during April 2011 so I still have a year to learn more of the language. Since I [...]
My next trip to New York City will be on April 3rd. I will be taking a Susquehanna Trailways bus to New York City to spend the day at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. After I visit two more museums on subsequent trips I plan to explore the Greenwich Village neighborhood and Alphabet City where [...]
