Original From: Parent Phobia Blog To-Dos Remember to the old days? When you could launch a blog and just start writing? When you just hoped and prayed someone would come and read your stuff (ok I still do that). These days however it takes a bit more self promotion. I already managed to snag a …
Tag Archives: Personal Writing
Twitter Leaves My Friends Wondering Where I am.
There is a group of six of us that exchange multiple e-mails on a daily basis. I removed myself from the Internet for a couple days last week, and the last message I left on twitter was the fact I was at the hospital ( a family member was getting a procedure). When I finally …
Catching Up
Picture from here You would think that 48 hours away from the Interwebs would be easy. That catching up would be no big deal. Well not really. Upon finally bringing myself to login, it wasn’t as bad as I thought but took a few hours to catch up. 858 unread feeds to wade through – …
Nerd vs. Geek vs. Dork
Picture from here Today I read a comment on slashdot that inspired me to write on this subject. The comment was written on the Secret History of Star Wars article and was given by Omestes and was as follows: Oh god, the Nerd/Dork/Geek argument. We always went with nerds being unwashed, antisocial geniuses who small …
Should I Get a Nokia N810?
To get an n810 or not is the question. A few days ago I wrote a couple blog posts from my wife’s new n810. I have some reservations about the keyboard for “power writing”, but that can be handled by a seperate bluetooth keyboard. I think that’s not an issue. Would I use it instead …
Internet Deadman’s Switch Part 1
One thing I’ve been working on for awhile is and Internet Deadman’s Switch. With all of my crossposting and media re-usage activities in the grand scheme this should be fairly trivial. I am sure however that some things will slip me up. We’ll start in this section of identifying the goals I wish to acomplish …
Get Off My Lawn
I’m one of those people. The people that are annoying. The people that don’t want you walking across their lawn. The ones that threaten loudly to call the police about trespassing (but never do). I have a theory about this. I was one of those kids that hiked across alot of lawns. As a matter …