BlogFerret

I’ve decided to try something new with my website. Instead of posting random blather in a stream of consciousness style, I’m going to keep to a regular schedule and post about specific things. Novel idea for me, no?

I’m aware that my life lacks a lot of focus. I complain because I don’t reach the “lesser” goals in my life, but I am pretty unfocused and disorganized unless I have something big on the line (i.e. graduate school). I also seem to let some people influence me where I wouldn’t normally be influenced if I were more certain of myself. I feel as if at 31, I really should go ahead and attempt to figure out exactly who I am and exactly what I want. Now, a weblog isn’t really going to help me do this, but if I work on structure and focus in this small way, maybe I can see how it works on a larger scale. In any case, I’d really like to improve my writing in an online medium.

Otherwise, I’ll have to start putting “Verbose and Directionless” beneath my name on my business cards.

I just thought I’d mention, in case no one noticed, that I finally fixed the colors and pictures here and I also installed a groovy new progress plugin. It is called Progressfly, and as you can see, it uses css to generate progress meters for whatever you want. I was going to put James’s knitted socks in there, but I think I need to make some prioritized categories: somehow it would seem wrong to put a pair of knitted socks in the same column as my MA Degree. Or perhaps I’m simply egotistical.

I do seem to be feeling much better. I stopped posting in October only to begin again yesterday, and here I am posting again! I was browsing yesterday and today looking for configuration instructions for a plugin I installed in October and promptly forgot about. (More on this later when I actually use it to generate content.) I read an article about how to bring readers to one’s blog with an aim to make money blogging, and the author insisted that one’s blog have “focus.” Read the rest of this entry »

Guess what, guys? My blog made money! Well, it made Amazon referral fees. It was for the second quarter, so it was in April.  I made $5.00!  How exciting is that?  Thanks to my faithful readers and random wandering googlers. I get paid in Amazon gift certificates, so it has to reach a certain amount before I actually get to use it for anything, but hey, I was pretty gratified that after several years of being an Amazon associate I finally made money!

I usually only link to products (mostly books) that I want or like, but maybe I’ll stick some random-ish Amazon links next to my Google ads on the sidebar.  I’m not worried too much about being too mercenary, because no one clicks the Google ads - which is okay, really. My website has always really been sort of an experiment to see what happens if one quietly goes about his or her business on the internet.  Over the past few years,  some interesting things have happened, including being hacked and having really neat commenters!

Hi guys,

In honor of slightly elevated traffic lately (i.e. two of you who seldom pass by have both let me know you’ve been reading!) I decided to finally sort out the recipe section of this blog.  I decided that that only format for my recipes that I can stand to use is actually another blog.  Now, this will probably pose problems related to ease of use and sorting via cooking times, etc, but since my cooking isn’t really an exact science, I don’t have to worry too much about that.

Notice the new “recipes” section on the navigation bar above.  When you click it, you will notice that it takes you to an actual recipe blog that has actual recipes you can view on it. A far cry from my abortive experiments with recipe softwares, no? I’m still working out a system for posting pics, but since food photographs so awfully anyway I’m not too worried.  I think I have a nice piccy of a King Cake somewhere, though… heheh.

I finally decided to try this. This post was created using Avantgo and my faithful Sony Clie T615C.

Back after 42geeks.com was hacked by malicious little twinks. I have installed Wordpress 2.0. I will soon install Gallery.

I don’t know if I like my new host because it doesn’t let me choose the names of my databases and email/ftp user accounts. It generates some random string. It’s kind of a pain in the ass.