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I have succumbed. I never wanted to. Tweeting for tweet sake ain't sweet. So if I must, then I'll concentrate my twittles on genealogy software, Behold, and how and what genealogy programs should be. If you want to look me up or follow me, my Twitter id is: louiskessler I still prefer RSS to view tweets ...

This update was almost all bug fixes and features that weren't quite working right. Many of the these were for problems reported to me (Thank you!!!) following the last release. I'll be emailing each of you who reported something to me in December or January and let you know the status of whether or not it's ...

I'm working to fix about two dozen (mostly small) things that don't work quite right in Behold that I've found and were reported to me, It seems I can classify them into three types: 1. Bugs: These are the once that take a few minutes to find, resolve, and fix. Sometimes, they may require up to an hour ...

I had some very interesting discussion with Tom Wetmore over at BetterGEDCOM. He's the other genealogy software developer involved with the BetterGEDCOM endeavor. Tom has been around the genealogy world for a long time. He is the original developer of the LifeLines program for Unix, maybe 20 years ago. Tom ...

I just tabulated my GenSoftReview Users Choice Awards for 2010. There were 8 programs that had enough votes and an overall user rating of at least 4 out of 5. There were another 7 programs which had garnered at least 4 but hadn't yet got the 10 reviews required. They are potential award winners next year given ...

A month ago, I blogged about the BetterGEDCOM endeavor. In the ensuing month, I've gotten involved and added my two cents worth. I find I'm mostly a lone wolf in the woods. Up until a few days ago, I didn't know why my ideas were so different from everyone else. Almost all of them are of the opinion that ...

Tamura Jones wrote an article about my implementation of FTW TEXT. See Tamura's article on Behold FTW TEXT which is subtitled: "Lone developer embarrasses billion-dollar corporation". It's quite a pointed article pitting little me against the big Ancestry.com organization. I really hope they don't stand ...

Most of today I spent updating my GenSoftReviews site. GenSoftReviews has been up for over two years, and over that time has had (as I write this) 723 reviews added, averaging almost one a day. But over the past two years, I have noticed a few things and also got a few good suggestions from people about the ...

A couple of days ago, I received an email with this question about Behold: "after looking at it I could not figure out what I would use it for, could you tell me what need inspired you to create this software?" That was a good question, and I know I've said bits and pieces about this before, but I don't ...

A few important changes in this release: I implemented two new features: an important enhancement to the way references are displayed, which now includes the date and place of the event where available. Also now I have full support for the input of FTW Text files including some important changes to the FTW ...