First post

Yep, this is a blog post. It's for a class exercise on 23 Things, a way for library staffers to learn about Web 2.0. Seems like a good idea to me.

This photograph bears absolutely no relevance to the subject at hand; I include it here because 1) I think all blog posts should include art 2) it happened to be on my computer and 3) it's not a bad shot. I took it at Fort Jefferson in the Dry Tortugas, one of Florida's if not the world's most beautiful places in my opinion. The boats are called "chugs" and are there because refugees from Cuba used them to cross the Florida Straits. Under current U.S. policy (known as wetfoot/dryfoot) if they make it to U.S. soil (dryfoot) they get to stay. Dry Tortugas National Park is U.S. soil and it's a lot easier to reach (more remote, fewer patrols) than the Keys or mainland Florida so a lot of Cubans reach this country that way.

This is, I believe, the sixth blog I've created. All but the first still exist although one -- the Florida Keys Community College News & Events blog -- is now managed by other people. I'm going to include links to my other blogs. One of them, Key West Coffee, is not a "real" blog but something I created for a workshop on blogging at the Monroe County Public Library in Key West.