Editor’s Brew

Soaring Café – The End of the Beginning

A belated Happy New Year to all our visitors! Now that the first year of Soaring Café is behind us, we would like to recap some highlights from 2011 and share some thoughts about where we’ve been and where we would like to go in 2012. We also want to thank you—our contributors, advertisers, and especially our readers—for supporting the Café during its seminal year and for your gracious compliments and constructive criticism.

www.soaring.eu is Now Linked to the Soaring Cafe

Let me introduce myself first for those who do not know me. My name is Ritz [from the Netherlands] and every Wednesday and Sunday I write a blog about soaring. It is NOT literature, but an easy reading blog to share news and soaring sentiment with all who are interested.

Soaring Cafe Wants Your Articles

Dear soaring friends, Soaring Cafe is now four months old and continues to grow.  (see stats below)  Rand and I would like very much to thank you for helping to make the Soaring Cafe a big success.  We receive very nice emails complimenting us on the Cafe just about every day.  When we go to…

Success, again, with Facebook

I have spent the better part of the weekend working on the site and connections with Facebook.  It would really be nice if you could login to the Cafe with your Facebook credentials and comment with them and so on.  Well, I have successfully made that all work.  But, I had to delete the Fan…

Soaring Cafe was down for IE users earlier today.

Sorry for any inconveniences caused by the Cafe being down for a while for Internet Explorer users.  Our Facebook plugin had some corrupt code which caused IE to simply abort the page load once the code was encountered.  We will keep a close watch on this for a while.  — WE

February Wrap-up, The Cafe is Going Strong

The Cafe, continues to have a steady stream of regular visitors, as well as many new visitors each day.  Rand and I regularly get very nice emails telling us how much people are enjoying the Cafe and find it to be their daily stop to catch up on what is going in soaring while enjoying…

Soaring Cafe adds Facebook

I have been working for the past few weeks to figure out how to connect with our Soaring Cafe Facebook Fan page.   Well, I have think I have figured it out and seem to have it setup. You will now see Facebook Share and Like buttons all over the site.  This will provide more…

Soaring Cafe Latest and Greatest

Blogs are interesting websites to work on.  We are not quite sure how to characterize the Soaring Cafe — is it a blog, is it an “e-zine”?  The site is built on a blog engine, but that really doesn’t seem to make us a blog. Robin Clark particularly liked the Cafe aspect of our title…

SSA Conference Blog – Saturday

Saturday dawned bright and sunny, but chilly nonetheless. There’s a huge pile of snow just outside the hotel entrance. It’s been there since Wednesday and it’s not getting any smaller! I started the day with the Governors, Chapters, and Clubs breakfast. There was no formal program for the breakfast, but I enjoyed a pleasant visit…

SSA Conference Blog – Friday

The first event on today’s personal agenda was the Competition Pilots’ breakfast, moderated by U.S. Contest Committee Chair Ken Sorenson. Ken presented a summary of last year’s U.S. regional and national contest participation by class as well as changes to the 2011 contest rules proposed to the SSA Board by the Rules Committee. Last year,…