Good as any, Better than most

Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Mission Statement

How to write original material, day after day?

That’s the question I asked myself a couple of weeks ago, when I decided to start posting.  I have these ideals, that I’d like to entertain any possible readers (and I know who all 3 of you are), even when I really don’t have anything to say when I type these out.

I have several thousand little stories from my childhood that shock and amuse.  I’m writing that story that I post on Thursdays (pretty much no lead time, I write the part I post, just before I post, so you’re seeing raw first draft material.

And then there’s days where I’m just going to bitch about work, either allegorically, or specifically.

I’m going to limit myself on posting about my time wasting hobby of playing World of Warcraft.  I’m not going to try and be a place people stop for global, technological or current news.

I will try to be entertaining though.  At least once a month.  When it’s precipitating.

Tuesday, August 29, 2006

Faster than I thought

Ok, all of my myspace blogs are moved over.  I’m going to leave them over there, due to the quality comments they got.

I’m almost wondering if I should mirror the new ones over here, with a link over there, since only 3 people know about this site at this point.  Maybe a global link?  I don’t know.  I’m not really sure what I mean to accomplish with this, other than to give me an outlet for stress, and possibly some creativity.

I can’t promise the creativity though.

I intend to follow the “Mine.” storyline up.  Really.  There’s some other pieces like it that I have laying around, started, half a chapter here and there, that I’d like to get into digital format, and be able to work on as the mood strikes.

I’m also moving everything I had up in a subdirectory on the Windows server, over here.  I’m not 100% on file sharing/file modes in a Linux environment, and this gives me a great opportunity to sharpen up on that.

The Migration

My plan is to move all of the myspace blogs I wrote over here.  There’s not that many of them, so it shouldn’t take long.  It should give me a nice jumping off point to flesh this bad boy out.

The plan is to eventually have all the pictures and shit that I have shared out in the past here too, so that they’re centralized.  That’s a goal for another day though.

Monday, August 28, 2006

Note of rather insignificant importance

I just got home from work (there’s a 12 hour day in), and I wanted to see if ye olde website was accessible and usable from home.

It looks like it is, or you wouldn’t be reading this.

So not only do I like the layout of this engine better, it’s already at 100% up-time for me.

Sure, I don’t have a non-functional database of album covers, and book covers to show you what I’m currently reading and listening to, but...well, the site actually loads in a decent amount of time.

Any slowness is directly related to the functionality of our wireless ISP, which sometimes drops random connections temporarily.

And hey, the blog has a spellcheck, built in!  How’s that for importance?

Trial by Fire

I was really sick of myspace always eating my little notes.

So, I’m going to see if I can do any better using off the shelf software.

Well, it’s more of off the apt-get software, but that’s neither here, nor there.