April 21, 2008
Hello, World!
Yeah. So, sorry for the silence (not really). I've been busy (kinda). It won't happen again (yes it will).
Someone sent me a snide e-mail informing me that if he wanted to look at a blog that had a post about clever bookshelves every time he browsed to it, he would just go to the bookshelf blog, where he would actually see different bookshelves every day. Ha. Ha.
Anyway. I'm not completely sure where all the time went over the last 3+ weeks, although I have had a few projects, distractions, and sidetracks (yes, you can use that as a noun; I looked it up!) that have sucked away energy and attention. Many of these have had to do with what you might call 'spring cleaning'.
My computer, for example, was completely cluttered with stuff. Computers deal with clutter marvelously, but it was still a problem because I had innumerable "save for later" folders that had been growing for months or even years. It was an unmanageable backlog, so most of it had to go - lots of songs and e-mails went in the trash. I also have hundreds of bookmarks that I wanted to post here along with a few thoughts. There's such a backlog now that I'll never be able to write thoughts. Rather than trash them all, I think I'll just start a "link dump" and post the links with only the briefest of comments (or none at all). There are about 400 bookmarks (pruned down from almost twice that much), so if I post four or five every day, I should clear them out in three months or so.
I've also been getting rid of lots of the physical junk I've accumulated during the last few years. My upcoming move to another state (more on that later) is probably spurring it on. I complained about gathering computer equipment and electronics five years ago, but somehow I've already gathered more. I'm selling what I can (like the networking equipment from last month, and some upcoming items I need to post to eBay and Craigslist), but there are still batteries and print cartridges and broken stuff that are worthless but can't simply be tossed in the trash. Disposing of these items properly is still a major hassle (at least where I live), requiring research and time. I suspect most people probably just throw them away, which is a little unsettling. (Apparently, as many as two billion people are cell phone subscribers. Lay two billion cell phones end to end and they would stretch halfway to the moon -- to say nothing of cell phones already in landfills.)
Anyway.
Expect little bunches of links to start showing up on a semi-regular basis.
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