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Seasonality

byJon Westfall May 3, 2016 Personal

In August 1986 I started school. I was 2 1/2 years old, and I think my mother figured it was time for me to get out of the house and see the world, or at least the preschool at Thoreau Park Elementary School. In a few short months, that will…

How Are You Doing?

byJon Westfall April 9, 2016 Psychology

Last week I was in New Orleans with students for a conference, as I mentioned in my last post. However I left out one of my encounters from that night – a conversation I had with a man named Koolio, which started over a simple question: “How are you doing?”

Defying Classification

byJon Westfall March 31, 2016 Psychology

I’m writing this post, the first in over a month (my bad!) from a hotel room in New Orleans. I’m down here for the Southeastern Psychological Association (SEPA) conference, having brought with me 5 of my undergraduate students from Delta State. The conference seems to be having the desired effect…

I realize that I Sometimes Comment Selfishly

byJon Westfall March 17, 2015 Personal Technology

Recently I’ve found myself writing comments on other people’s posts and then deciding at the last moment not to post them. Obviously it’s a good idea to always read over what you intend to say before you say it, and it’s usually at that point that I realize that what…

8 Amazing Rules You Can Apply Now To Make Your Posts Blow Up on Social Media!

byJon Westfall January 19, 2015 Technology

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, right? Thanks to the always enlightening Judie Stanford for posting this pic – I couldn’t resist making a post just to try out the headline formula.https://blog.bufferapp.com/headline-formulas?utm_content=buffer31834&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Never Been Said

byJon Westfall December 15, 2014 Other Things

I did a Google search today for the phrase “my relationship with my wife is the easiest thing in my life”, and this is what I got: Google is a full text search engine, which means that, apparently, according to Google, no one has ever said that phrase before. In…

Is Blogo the New Windows Live Writer

byJon Westfall September 19, 2014 blogging Technology

Back in the day (“the day” being 5 years ago), I used to use Windows Live Writer to compose updates for my blog(s). Loved it. Then I switched to a Mac, and Microsoft more or less abandoned Windows Live Writer. Now I’m trying a new piece of desktop software for blogging…

Publishing to Facebook?!?

byJon Westfall August 4, 2014 Technology

For reasons I’ll never understand, the WordPress Jetpack social plugin that’s supposed to be able to publish my stuff everywhere (i.e. FB, Twitter, LinkedIn, Tumblr, Google+) sometimes doesn’t want to publish it to the network I get 70% of my traffic from: Facebook. Not sure what that is, but I’m back…

But It Looks Like a Heart

byJon Westfall May 18, 2014 Personal

Earlier this month, Karey & I celebrated the 15th anniversary of the first time we met in person (We met online before it was cool – actually it was still heavily stigmatized!) In honor of that, I’ll post this anecdote. A few months ago we were driving on an epic…

Happy 10th Anniversary to JonWestfall.Com

byJon Westfall March 28, 2014 Personal

A little over 10 years ago, on March 24, 2004, I posted the first entry on my LiveJournal blog – what would eventually become JonWestfall.com (I actually mentioned in that post that I was trying to figure out how to show the RSS feed from my LiveJournal blog to the…