mobile blogging

So my twitter buddie Mo, tweets that this here worpress app for the bberry is good. So I am trying it out. I can post to posterous and it goes everywhere, well, not to buzz but that is fine, but sometimes I just want to post to my good old friend here. So now I can I hope. And write all my quick random thoughts as the day passes. Yay me.

incognito?

using the new google chrome browser for the Mac. It finally came out. It has nice themes, and one little thing that I had not noticed on the PC version, probably because it feels clumsy to use on the PC. The “new Incognito Window” . This is what it said when I opened up a new window this way

You’ve gone incognito. Pages you view in this window won’t appear in your browser history or search history, and they won’t leave other traces, like cookies, on your computer after you close the incognito window. Any files you download or bookmarks you create will be preserved, however.Going incognito doesn’t affect the behavior of other people, servers, or software. Be wary of:

 

• Websites that collect or share information about you
• Internet service providers or employers that track the pages you visit
• Malicious software that tracks your keystrokes in exchange for free smileys
• Surveillance by secret agents
• People standing behind you

Really weird eh? I am posting to posterous from that incognito window.

I feel so, so, invisible?

just in case…

you subscribe to this lowly erratic, self-serving blog, and were wondering what was up with the posts lately, I now pretty much use posterous for all the photos I send, since I can post to posterous, flickr, facebook, and here all in one shot. Oh and my tumblr blog too, god only knows why I have a tumblr blog, but I do.

and this design is undergoing some changes. I just have to get a feel for the theme I will use first, then go and customize it up. This one I cannot figure out how to get the stupid categories wrangled up properly, and so it will be on to the next one. There is one theme I want to try called puretype, and it may be the one that works best for me. I need a wide post area to accomodate the photos. and there will be many more photos than actual blog posts. I think. maybe not. who knows. anyway, this post is exclusively for the taking a break blog, not for posterous or anything, so. hi there. welcome to my crazy ass world.

saturday mornings used to be nice

Since I am making my posterous blog my “travel” blog” for this trip, I moved this post over here.

when working in the “other world” I could sleep in on Saturdays. Well, after the kids were grown a bit. But since late 2000, there is no more sleeping in. That is when I became a solopreneur working from home and my own boss. Working on Saturdays often entails the email reading, blog catchup and design work. Like the 3 comps I have to come up with today. It looks like it will be a nice early spring day today (technically it is still winter) so I’ll be tempted to go out and do some yardwork, or clean the inside of the car, or just sit and enjoy the sun and birds and the few clumps of new grass. But, working for myself and having to hustle much more in this down economy, I won’t be able to do that.

So before you go saying that working for yourself is all fun and games, “must be nice to work in your PJ’s”, think again. It is nice and I doubt I could ever go back to working for someone else, but working for yourself means working hours and hours and weekends and weekdays and weeknights. Unless you want to be poor, it is how it is. Luckily I LOVE what I do, so it is not all that bad.

And as for working in my PJ’s… I learned a long time ago, that if I did not treat working from home for myself as a real job, getting showered and dressed and “commute” to work every day, I would stay in PJ mode and not make any money. I happen to like to pay my bills on time and buy new pretty computers, so, I get dressed for work each day. I also set “office” hours, even though people seem to ignore them by calling after hours, or on weekends. With client emails, unless they are earth-shattering important, I don’t reply to them until Mondays, although I may reply to them immediately, and hold on to them as drafts, so that I can capture my gut thoughts on them, and refine them. It seems that more and more people, the late adoptors especially, want you to IMMEDIATELY respond to their needs. Where as once these people could barely use email, they now want you to sit in front of your computer and wait for their email in order to respond immediately. I have a few clients like that, and it’s hard to wean them from that instant gratification. I mean, a web site is NOT LIFE OR DEATH, and no one is going to die if I wait until Monday to reply to your inane question. But I ramble here. It’s just that today, I had a number of clients email me early this morning and already, it is barely 10am, two have emailed me again asking if I got their email from 7 or 8 am. I mean GEEZUSFREAKINCHIRST. None of the requests or questions are important, and I’ll get to them when I can. Now, just for the “lesson” they are not getting a reply until Monday. Period. They can cool their freakin jets.

expression engine

I’ve decided that since I renewed my “membership” at EE a few months ago, and I have a new version of the full EE, I might as well install it and see what it has for me. I’ll do it on one of my obscure domains and if it works out, bingo, I’ll use it for my kidoimages site. if not, then I don’t. simple nuff. So, while I am waiting to go get missy tonight, I’ll do that initial install and see whassup!

AEA

Adactio: Journal—Understanding Web Design

This person is/was liveblogging, but in a more thoughtful way. Not just notes, but insight and expression. I like. This is one talk I want to see, I would love to make it to Chicago, but alas, Colorado trip will do that in.

ok that was easy

Just use the WP auto upgrade plugin, again, to move to 2.6.1. easy peasy. Now to go to the BS blog and do it there.

Blog Action Day 2008

This came through on Twitter. It is a very good idea, so I am going to promote the heck out of it.

http://blogactionday.org/

I give to Kiva on a regular basis. I even think that for christmas this year, I am going to give gift certificates to family members so that they too can give. force them to do it. good things happen when you give.

august 5 is a beautiful day | 12seconds.tv (alpha)

august 5 is a beautiful day | 12seconds.tv (alpha)

using a new microvidblogging site. 12seconds.tv. like twitter for video. you have 12 seconds. cool.

The Most Powerful Persuasive Element of Blogging | Copyblogger

The Most Powerful Persuasive Element of Blogging | Copyblogger

This goes into the infostore for the blog articles that I am writing. on paper.