On the subject of nurturing connections… Some people have a list of websites that they routinely and regularly visit. Mine is terribly short — too short, really. One of the sites I stop by on an irregular basis belongs to a friend. Steve has for a long time maintained a chronological list of some of […]
Archives for May 2004
If people treated their houses…
One of the forum scripts that I’ve used on a few sites is Snitz Forums. It’s a semi-obscure forum, mainly because it’s ASP-based when everything else these days uses PHP. But that’s neither here nor there. Perusing the forums recently, I ran across a link from fellow Snitz-er Bookie, who posed the question: What if […]
About Schmidt (& blogging)
My Netflix rentals have been collecting dust lately. I tend to watch movies in batches, and I think it’s about time to start up again. Last night I sat down and watched About Schmidt. Jack Nicholson plays Warren Schmidt, recently retired insurance actuary and widower. Schmidt finds himself in the unhappy predicament of reaching the […]
Bloody Newsletter Time Again!
Somewhere along the line, it seemed like a good idea. An email newsletter to help promote my busiest site: BigBlueBall.com. I had done it before; starting and stopping without any sort of regularity. But then back in February in a moment of temporary insanity I committed to cranking them out bi-weekly. It’s not that they […]
Anti-GMail Fanaticism
I finally got an invitation to open a GMail account, thanks to a wonderful friend. If you’ve been hiding under a rock for the past month, GMail is the new web-mail service that Google is testing. When they launch, they promise free email accounts with a whopping 1 GB of storage — enough to keep […]
Museum of Man
I invested some time in my daughter today. Her Human Hereditary and Evolution class required a trip to the Museum of Man in San Diego’s Balboa Park. I went along to keep her company, unplug for a while and enjoy the beauty of Balboa Park. The exhibit she was studying dealt with human evolution. I’m […]