SSN 680 Plan of the Day
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On your end, the most important thing to know is that all the content is still there - we aren't dropping anything. All the photographs, all the sea stories, the Crew Gallery, the forum we call the Scuttlebutt all remain intact just as they where when you last saw them.
The most important new feature is that the two databases we were using, one for the Registered Site Users, and one for the Master Sailing list have been combined into one.
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Memorial Day.
For many years, I didn't give much thought to the differences between Memorial Day and Veteran's Day. Based on the media coverage of the holiday and the celebrations in Washington last night, it seems I'm not alone. I suppose that it is easier to confuse the two than one might imagine.
Both days are a day to pay tribute to those that have gone before us, especially our shipmates, and that's a good thing. Both days we recognize that service to our country, and the attendant sacrifice of our lives, if necessary, is among the highest callings, and worthy of honor. These similarities, and the compulsion of our hearts caring as they do, drives us to remember, to honor, and to commemorate the service of those, like ourselves, who have given so much.
Honor, courage, devotion to country, and the ultimate sacrifice are all things worthy of praise...
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Some of you are on the dink list, and you know what that means. No libs tonight!
If you fall dink in maintaining your email address current, I find out when I run a periodic newsletter, and guess what, it's that time again.
I'm reminding you, in the sweetest tone of voice possible, to keep your user profile up-to-date, you jack-wagons!. It is especially important to update your email when you change service providers or jobs. Your email address lets us keep you informed with the Familygram newsletter, and without a current email, you can't access the site if you forget your password, so it has to be accurate. But you are the only one that can keep it current.
When you change your email, log in and update your profile. You can also add a biography, military history, and a photo of you then and now, so you can make it worth your time...
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How many time have you seen an image on the site that you really like and want to add to your own collection? Have you ever thought that you'd like to keep some certain images, just in case, for example, I was to give up my passion for ssn-680.org, and the site would be lost forever. (Like that would ever happen!)
Well, fret no more! We have added a feature to make it easy for you to download your favorite images found around the site outside the Crew Gallery. (The Crew Gallery has its own download links for images posted by your shipmates.)
While there are some exceptions as we move toward the new format for the site, almost every page with images has a gallery accessed by clicking on the thumbnails on the page so you can see large or full-sized high resolution versions of the photos on the page...
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The site continues to grow. Your photographs, your sea stories, and anything else you send my way makes it into this museum of living history we call ssn-680.org! We have almost 1000 articles, probably twice that many photographs or more, not counting everything else, and each item of interest that gets added makes it just that much harder to find what you are looking for. To that end, I've been working on indexing the site and though I've barely scratched the surface, there is enough to warrant taking the site index active so you can see how it works and what it does.
The index is located in the right hand column and is called, surprisingly enough, the SSN-680 Site Index. Thought that one up all by myself, I did! Click on the "Select a tag" button and you get a pop-up menu that gives you hundreds of key word choices...
