American actor and singer, Michael Dunn (born Gary Neil Miller) arrived on this date in 1934 in Shattuck, Oklahoma. When he was four, his family moved to Dearborn, Michigan. Parents Jewell and Fred championed his right to live and develop openly, as part of mainstream life, defying repeated pressures from school authorities to send him to a school for disabled children. An early reader, he was a champion speller, showed an early aptitude for the piano, and developed a lyric baritone and was given to crowd-drawing impromptu public performances even while just waiting for a bus. He ice-skated and swam in childhood, remaining a skilled swimmer throughout his life. He attended the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, but was seriously injured on a stairwell during a "student rush" and was hospitalized for three months. Transferring to the more forgiving climate and accessible campus of the University of Miami, he seemed to excel more in extracurricular...
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Hey, how do you do the thing where only the first few sentences of your post appear, and then someone has to click a link to read the rest? I'd like to do that with my blogspot page, but can't figure out how.
I'd also like to liven my blog up with some photos, but can't be bothered with it, either. Why can't I just think them into there? Dammit.
http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=898&topic=41
I read about it early on, had some questionable experiences with tampering with my template code earlier and so put it off for a while. Once Tim Tjarks did it with his I revisited the idea and it worked fairly easily. The (tiny) downside is that the format will be retroactive, so your earlier posts will be fully on display with a link to no-more-text ("More", "Full Post" or however you decide to designate it) at the bottom of each.
They've made adding images very easy, the biggest difficulty being that if you want them to appear at a particular place in your piece, once you've added a pic you'll need to go to the html edit screen, cut the image code block at the top and paste it where you want it below. There's no intermediate ftp image upload step and addresses to remember, so if it's an image on your hard drive you can send a copy up and access it in your blog in one step.