Breaking my pennant aboard the new site and in the process, offering a warm welcome to those coming from the legacy site.  Please use this posting to place comments/suggestions/toss brickbats etc. re your impressions of the site. Thanks!
– SJS
*Finally*Â After almost five weeks of “interfacing” with two (almost three) different internet service providers, untold numbers of hours on the phone with incompetent technicians and unhelpful customer “service” reps (don’t even get me started with the ‘survey’ requirements), we are finally back online and no longer wifi whoring a few minutes at a time…
For the past few weeks this site’s attention has been focused on the Project VALOUR-IT 2009 fundraiser, and forgoing other topics in the interest of keeping it upfront. Now that the campaign is over, we’ll use this post to catch up on a couple of items put on ice during that time. I. Thanks and…
Midway POSTEX: Southern Air Pirate passes a couple of links related to the Battle of Midway well worth tucking into your “Favorites” folders. Some good, rare and poignant imagery at those sites. See especially the color series on VT-8 and what is probably the last photo of VT-8 as a squadron joining up overhead to…
As promised, the Flightdeck Friday Index has been completed and is now available under the "Pages" heading on the sidebar. Future topics will include Brewster’s F2A Buffalo, Curtiss SB2C Helldiver, Boeing PB-1W, Blackburn Buccaneer and de Havilland Sea Vixen (among many others). If there are any favorites out there, drop a line and we’ll add…
Admittedly, there has been a bit of light posting around here of late – but with good cause. With the new year we shifted location and jobs, moving from the purple world back to Navy blue and gold. Still very much involved in the operational world and much more analytical work, but from a different…
Northrop Grumman Annual ROBOTICS Essay Contest Goal: Discuss the most pressing needs where ROBOTICS may be a solution The Challenge: “Next year, the US Air Force will procure more unmanned aircraft than manned aircraft,” Air Force Lt. Gen. Norman Seip, commander of Twelfth Air Force (Air Forces Southern), has predicted. Â Will advances keep up…
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I like it! This has a much “cleaner” (more elegant?) look than the Blogger platform. As for display, it works/looks just fine for me (Firefox 1.5.0.12, Win/XP, 1024×768).
I may just take the WordPress plunge my-own-self!!
Looks good on MAC OSX and Safari.
Now get to work filling it up!!
Nose
Sweet!
Looks good on a WinXP w/Internet Explorer 7 (and all updates) to me.
(Changing my name slightly …)
Dear SJS: I haven’t a clue what all the technical terms mean, but I do have Windows Vista and the graphics and overall appearance are very fine, indeed. Also, the background allows for slightly easier reading. Thank you, sir.
Veritas et Fidelis Semper
This is unrelated, but would the aircraft under the title bar be an “AWAC” type of aircraft? Thank you.
Veritas et Fidelis Semper
Deborah –
That would be the mighty War-Hummer, aka E-2C Hawkeye although AWACS is a term the light-blue suit (Air Force) folks use. 😉 If pressed we usually say we are a C4I/Battle Management platform…
– SJS
SJS
BZs for p!mping your WordPress site. I am forced to use WinIE-6 for buisness reasons — the content looks pristine from my side of the port hole.
WordPress seems like a wonderful way to go — easy reading, clean format, etc. Lex’s Main Deck and his Flighdeck spot are good examples. I also like http://bookwormroom.wordpress.com/. BW has a feature laden site that I hope to emulate someday, if I
E-V-E-R
get some free time.
I commend you on your Midway postings. They were a great resource. I served on the SF BOMC Committee. Last Saturday we had 260 guests, including 35 BOM Vets and CNO, all ensconced at the Marines’ Memorial Club. ‘Twas a most wonderful Dining-Out.
SJS
BZs for p!mping your WordPress site. I am forced to use WinIE-6 for buisness reasons — the content looks pristine from my side of the port hole.
WordPress seems like a wonderful way to go — easy reading, clean format, etc. Lex’s Main Deck and his Flighdeck spot are good examples. I also like http://bookwormroom.wordpress.com/. BW has a feature laden site that I hope to emulate someday, if I
E-V-E-R
get some free time.
I commend you on your Midway postings. They were a great resource. I served on the SF BOMC Committee. Last Saturday we had 260 guests, including 35 BOM Vets and CNO, all ensconced at the Marines’ Memorial Club. ‘Twas a most wonderful Dining-Out.
V/r
-SJBill
I echo Buck – clean, great graphics, like all the finer points (like the way the date of each post is done). Oh, and I’m on Explorer 6.0.2 on a 19″ flat panel monitor set to 1024 x 768 – and the site looks terrific. NICE job!
Looks good to me, but what do I know? 🙄 I’m on WinXP, Firefox 2.0, with a 17″ flat panel monitor, set to 800 x 600.
Looks good to me SJS. Although it does kind of remind me of … Lex’s 🙄
Actually the old site looked good to me too, so whatever does it for you I guess. Honestly, I think I like the look of the other one better. I know, I know, there’s one in every crowd.
Wait a minute, no comment preview here??
BTW I probably have some of the older technology around here. Let’s see Windows 2000, Exploer 6.0. something and an ancient monitor at the moment cuz my puter has gone all screwy on me lately.
I do like the option of the faces though; nice for those of us who are html challenged 😆
Hmmm, comment previews — good point, thanks Michelle 🙂
– SJS
…ask and ye shall receive – checkout the button below…
Nice job SJS! I like it much better in WordPress. Looks clean and sharp and loads nicely on my ancient Win98 laptop with Firefox 2. Layout is very nice.
Looks good to me. The old site wasn’t bad, but this one has a very nice crisp layout. Also dig the image of the War Hummer at the top. It’s not bad…for a Navy plane.
Thanks!
Now can you make that work in the rest of my life… ask and ye shall receive?! 😎
BTW I do have one teeny tiny little problem.
Every time I try to post a comment, I get an error page. The comment posts but then I have to try to navigate my way back here. Through a cranky website. 😥
But can you tell that I really like the faces?
Michelle:
Not sure what might be causing that as you aren’t tagged as a spammer and I haven’t heard of others having the same problem. Can you send me a screen shot offline of the website you’re directed to? That should help me narrow the search for a solution…
– SJS
Not without trying to post another comment.
So here goes…
Clean, crisp, informative, comfortable.
I’ve got you bookmarked!
d
I like it a lot – clean and crisp, not too busy.
Welcome to WordPress!
SJS;
Didn’t WP give you the option of the “new” blogger format input? I’d do it if I was you…
I’d also place a link very near the top of the postings with a link back to the “old” blog.
Looks great on FireFox 2!
Very nice! I like it–that lovely header if my favorite part so far. 🙂
And the CSFT are going to be excellent for driving certain people right up the wall… 😉
Very nice theme/template! Of the thousands out there I found it extremely difficult to locate one that didn’t look like it was designed by Bart Simpson on an LSD trip. Finally gave up and settled on “Veryplaintxt” which is sterile it’s so clean. As Lex said, welcome to WP – it’s worth the initial pain.
SJS, this is what popped up when I hit post on the above comment. Hitting “refresh” got me back here where the comment had posted in spite of the error message. Not sure what caused it.
Error 403
We’re sorry, but we could not fulfill your request for /?p=9#comment-31 on this server.
You do not have permission to access this server.
Your technical support key is: 449f-a855-dfd9-b1ad
You can use this key to fix this problem yourself.
If you are unable to fix the problem yourself, please contact steeljawscribe at gmail.com and be sure to provide the technical support key shown above.
Steve:
I suspect this is what Michelle was talking about as well. Presently wrestling with one of the spam plugins that I suspect is the root cause…
– SJS
Looks good on IE 7 and windows vista.
Being an ex Fudd pilot in VAW-11, 1964-1967, I made two WestPac deployments aboard CVS’ and accumulated over 300 traps, some in the most horrible night-time weather conditions… I kind of resent the fact that many present day NFO’s, not only VAW types but VF/VA and A-6 NFOs are claiming they “made” so many hundreds of traps, when in fact they were crew members who might have assisted the pilot during the actual landings. It was the guy up front or in the left seat that MADE the landings.