It's been over a year since I first started thinking 'forum'.  Seems funny now that I was panicking about whether I could keep writing all by myself.  Apparently I can, although occasionally I get tired of the sound of my own mind.

Some days I feel like Forrest Gump in that part of his life where he'd been running back and forth across America for 3 years when he suddenly stopped and said, "I'm pretty tired, I think I'll go home now."

I've seen and heard that forums can go off the rails with advertising, icky stuff and lack of people participating.  But just as I drew a knife across my hand when I was 5 years old to find out what 'Don't touch that, it's sharp!' meant, I just can't help wanting to give this a try.

Don't be thinking big, big forum.  This is just a little baby forum.  Due to the offensive and irrelevant material that seems to swoop down on forums everywhere like a hoard of alien insects, I am not advertising it to the whole world.  It's JLog's private party for now.  Just us few chickens here.  I may change my mind after awhile depending how efficient I think I can be about deleting the Rolodex ads.

I would like the content to stay along the line of computers and genealogy.  For example, we could discuss scintillating subject matter like photographs, IPTC, file organization and general computer how-to's.  The idea is to learn or help some-one else learn.  You can start a new thread or answer some-one else's.  You can search the forum.  You can leave smiley faces on your posts.  You can even link to images and use html.

JLog readers have been nothing but polite and gracious to me throughout, so I don't expect anything except the highest level of decorum.

Please, jump in.