Website Housekeeping

Regular visitors to the site will have noticed that there has been some trouble with the latest news entries where I aggregate blog headlines from around the blogosphere. My apologies for the inconvenience. I never really took the time to get totally to the bottom of it, but I changed and updated some feeds and…

There is good news and more good news in this post. First the good news. I just counted the number of blogs tracked by my blog aggregator. By my latest count, we are now up to 57 blogs that I am tracking here on this site dealing with hand tool woodworking. Nice. Now the other…

It’s been four years and counting since I started UnpluggedShop.com as a hobby site. I wanted to learn hand tool woodworking and figured I might as well share. In both of those areas, the site has been a smashing success. I still have fond memories of those early days of the site when Chris Schwartz, Steven Shepherd, Kari…

I've gotten a lot out of UnpluggedShop.com over the years. I've learned more than I could have ever dreamed about traditional crafts. I've gotten to know some wonderful people in a virtual sort of way. And I'd like to think I've helped people find a hobby or even business that suits their situation and interests….

In the US, there is a current discussion about a presidential candidate who apparently doesn't know how to used email. The question raises an interesting point. Without going into the politics of the whole thing, which is a subject much better suited for other blogs, let's just look at the question of whether or not…

Unpluggedshop.com is continuing to attract more and more users. In the last month, we had over 10,000 pageviews, over 3,000 visits, and more than 1,500 absolute unique visitors! The average time spent on the site is 3 minutes and 47 seconds or about one minute per page. Thanks for stopping by, and as always, let…