The sun is out! The sun is out!!!
May 24, 2008
After a miniature heat wave last weekend, followed a week of cold overcast rainy days, we have beautiful sunny weather for the long weekend. I plan to spend some time outdoors, getting a mild sunburn (and soaking up plenty of vitamin D). When it gets dark, I’ll be writing about the mineral makeup I’ve found. I am now surrounded by pots and pots of colors, and am ridiculously giddy. Yesterday I got an organizer with two pull-out trays and removable compartment dividers. I will probably spend a large chunk of the evening figuring out which things go where, grouping makeup colors, regrouping them, and then changing my mind and starting all over again. (I’m a strange, strange person. Between my love of organizing and my love of office supplies, I’m hell on wheels at preparing to do things. I just never seem to need to actually -=do=- them. Once I’ve chosen the materials, bought them, and organized the work area, I’ve gotten all the pleasure out of a project that I’m ever going to get. There’s got to be a twelve-step program for people like me…and once we find the program and register, we never actually go.)
Stay safe, have fun, and next weekend (closer to the actual Memorial Day, rather than the observance) take time to remember everyone who’s fought for the ideals they believe in.
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And I'm going to share it. Implementing it, though...that's another story.
May 09, 2008
I’m launching another blog - this one for my hosting and development businesses. I get plenty of compliments on my writing, and I’ve been published in internet-industry magazines, so I know that not only will I have things to say, I’ll say them well.
My concern is that no one will comment. In several forums, I was The Thread Killer: I’d make a post describing my opinion about a certain show, or situation, or character, or plot twist…and all activity in a formerly active thread would come to a screeching halt. One of my friends told me that this happened because I expressed myself so well, that they didn’t just want to post “Me too!!” While I appreciate knowing that I express myself well, blogs and forums are supposed to be somewhat interactive. After a certain amount of time spent shouting into the void, one begins to feel a bit like Typhoid Forum-poster.
Another worry is copy theft. It’s happened before, and given the nature of the internet, I’m sure it will happen again. Still, while I’ve got no objections of people quoting my work, or even writing their own articles based off of ideas they got while reading my writing, I don’t like the idea of some startup hoster taking my articles wholesale and representing them as their own…either for public consumption or for their clients’ benefit. I may start out dividing the content, and anything that could be useful to the reseller clients will go behind a membership-login.
If nothing else, though, this will put activity on a domain I own. I’ve been using subdomains for the servers in my network, but the main site hasn’t been actively used in quite a while…and so I get a lot of requests to purchase the domain. I don’t want to sell the domain, but I’m getting tired of wading through all the offers. (Hey - there’s an idea for a post. Why I won’t sell, or what price will make me consider selling. Would $500,000 shut most of the speculators up?)
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