The Coppit Family Daily News

I’ve updated the blog to Wordpress 2.1, which involved updating the theme. Let me know if you see any glitches.

In order to make kids safe from wierdos on the big bad Internet, I’ve password-protected posts about Christopher and pictures of him and other kids. In order to get access, do the following:

1. Go to the register page for this blog.
2. Create a username and enter your email address. The blog will email you a temporary password.
3. Use the password to log in. Enter any additional information so I know who you are, in case your username isn’t obvious. Also be sure to change your password to something that is easy to remember.
4. Wait for an email from me saying that I’ve given you access.
5. Afterwards, go back to the blog and you should see posts about Christopher. You should also be able to see pictures about him in the photo album.

If you’re using a new web browser such as Firefox (any OS) or Safari (Mac OS only), you can tell the web browser to automatically check this website for new articles and display the results in a toolbar or bookmark list. See this webpage for Firefox instructions, and this webpage for Safari instructions.

Internet explorer doesn’t have this support built-in, but here is a toolbar plugin. I don’t know if it works well or not.

Of course, you could just set this webpage as your homepage.

Anyone can post comments by clicking on the “comments” link on an article. Right now I’m moderating them, so there may be a bit of a delay before everyone else can see your comments.

I can also give you permissions to post your own articles if you want. Just let me know and I will promote you and create a new category for you.

This is the inaugural post for this blog. I figured that it would be a good way to keep friends and family up to date with what’s going on in my life. Actually, I should say to keep people up to date with my son Christopher–before he came along, no one really cared about day-to-day updates from me.

Hopefully I can get Dorothy publishing as well… We’ll see.

I’ll be retro-blogging for a few articles to document the birth of Christopher…