10.28.2006 | links for 2006-10-28
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Wow, this is really cool. I loved this show. Favorite piece: the Nate/Brenda composite...
10.27.2006 | links for 2006-10-27
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That was prompt. Time to get my Firefox 2.0 on, I guess.
10.23.2006 | We Will Return After These Excuses
>> So yes: Happy sixth birthday, DYFL. Even if your future is in doubt.
Tonight is a perfect example of why I've barely written a real entry in this blog since July: lots of stuff is percolating in my brain, but I'm just too exhausted (only six hours of sleep last night, which simply doesn't work for me) to articulate any of it. So instead I'll leave you, for the indefinite time being, with this list of various bloggers' excuses for not blogging. Some of them sound very familiar, and some of them, thank God, don't.
Tonight is a perfect example of why I've barely written a real entry in this blog since July: lots of stuff is percolating in my brain, but I'm just too exhausted (only six hours of sleep last night, which simply doesn't work for me) to articulate any of it. So instead I'll leave you, for the indefinite time being, with this list of various bloggers' excuses for not blogging. Some of them sound very familiar, and some of them, thank God, don't.
10.21.2006 | Indeterminate
>> So. What's going on with this website?
Well, for one thing, Vox happened. I have an account over there, and I'm finding its ease of use and privacy/community features (the two go hand in hand, really) to be extremely attractive. I've started to become a lot cagier about what I want to talk about in front of the world; there was a time (many times, actually, if you go back through the archives here) when I used to bemoan that sort of reserve as backwards-thinking and not in the spirit of the blogging / web-communication revolution, but that kind of utopian outlook has been beaten out of me over the last couple of years. And frankly, on a lot of levels, the narrative that is my life is not quite interesting enough to sustain the kind of public performance that weblog-authorship entails. So I'm downscaling, and becoming much more of an occasional, journal-writing type, which Vox is ideal for.
What will I do with this webspace? I don't know. I won't give it up, certainly; there's a lot of brand equity invested in this place, to be mercenary about it, and I'd love to have it be a kind of portfolio-esque personal site, if only I had some kind of creative output worthy of assembling into a portfolio. But I felt some kind of official acknowledgement had to be made here that this site is no longer a priority in my life. As I began typing this post, I hadn't quite realized that that was the statement I was going to make, but you know what? I think it's time to admit it.
Who knows -- maybe Vox will jump the shark, and I'll want to put the energy that I've put into that community into instead transforming this site into the kind of space I want. And things will more than likely continue to happen here, so you may want to check back in every so often. But this is no longer my "primary" weblog, and I can't say with any certainty just what it will be when I feel I'm ready to turn my attention back to it.
And yeah, you'll notice I haven't given out my Vox username in this post. I'm easy enough to find, but I'd like the audience to be comprised of people who genuinely want to be reading about my exploits (and, to be brutally honest, to be comprised of people that I genuinely want to be reading about my exploits), so I'm afraid I'm going to make you hunt that little bit. That said, if you are a friend of mine (and we both know who you guys are), and you haven't joined Vox or just started popping in there every once and a while, then please send me an e-mail and I'll send you an invite. Yes, it's free, and yes, if you're my friend I'll let you read the private stuff.
This isn't really a goodbye post, but if what I've said here has lead you to decide to stop coming by here daily, then allow me to thank you now for having done so for as long as you did. I had a blast on this site, and who knows? Maybe I will again.
And yes: two days from now, October 23rd, will be the sixth anniversary of my keeping a blog. Something should probably be done to mark the occasion, I know...
Well, for one thing, Vox happened. I have an account over there, and I'm finding its ease of use and privacy/community features (the two go hand in hand, really) to be extremely attractive. I've started to become a lot cagier about what I want to talk about in front of the world; there was a time (many times, actually, if you go back through the archives here) when I used to bemoan that sort of reserve as backwards-thinking and not in the spirit of the blogging / web-communication revolution, but that kind of utopian outlook has been beaten out of me over the last couple of years. And frankly, on a lot of levels, the narrative that is my life is not quite interesting enough to sustain the kind of public performance that weblog-authorship entails. So I'm downscaling, and becoming much more of an occasional, journal-writing type, which Vox is ideal for.
What will I do with this webspace? I don't know. I won't give it up, certainly; there's a lot of brand equity invested in this place, to be mercenary about it, and I'd love to have it be a kind of portfolio-esque personal site, if only I had some kind of creative output worthy of assembling into a portfolio. But I felt some kind of official acknowledgement had to be made here that this site is no longer a priority in my life. As I began typing this post, I hadn't quite realized that that was the statement I was going to make, but you know what? I think it's time to admit it.
Who knows -- maybe Vox will jump the shark, and I'll want to put the energy that I've put into that community into instead transforming this site into the kind of space I want. And things will more than likely continue to happen here, so you may want to check back in every so often. But this is no longer my "primary" weblog, and I can't say with any certainty just what it will be when I feel I'm ready to turn my attention back to it.
And yeah, you'll notice I haven't given out my Vox username in this post. I'm easy enough to find, but I'd like the audience to be comprised of people who genuinely want to be reading about my exploits (and, to be brutally honest, to be comprised of people that I genuinely want to be reading about my exploits), so I'm afraid I'm going to make you hunt that little bit. That said, if you are a friend of mine (and we both know who you guys are), and you haven't joined Vox or just started popping in there every once and a while, then please send me an e-mail and I'll send you an invite. Yes, it's free, and yes, if you're my friend I'll let you read the private stuff.
This isn't really a goodbye post, but if what I've said here has lead you to decide to stop coming by here daily, then allow me to thank you now for having done so for as long as you did. I had a blast on this site, and who knows? Maybe I will again.
And yes: two days from now, October 23rd, will be the sixth anniversary of my keeping a blog. Something should probably be done to mark the occasion, I know...
10.20.2006 | links for 2006-10-20
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Helpful tips -- might make me put all my info back into AB after my last crash.
10.06.2006 | links for 2006-10-06
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When I win the lottery I WILL HAVE THIS.
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Oh, beautiful bed. You cost about $100 more than I can really pay for you, but I want you a lot. My fingers are crossed for an unexpected windfall.
10.04.2006 | links for 2006-10-04
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Cheap, seemingly decent image editing app... something to consider.
10.02.2006 | links for 2006-10-02
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This might be the greatest post in Metafilter's history: the story of the man who marketed Sea Monkeys and X-Ray Specs. A total must.
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