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July 14th, 2008 by Echos

Out of Creativity

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I’ve had the wordpress window opened all morning, trying to write some meaningful thoughts. I feel like everything has been said or done on the internet. Maybe this is a sign that I need to take a break from blogging for a little while. As a writer, I feel like if you don’t have something constructive or creative to post about, you shouldn’t post. I feel like there are enough low-quality blogs out there, so I don’t want to contribute to that. Posting about issues with a site or posting about things on the internet is a form of a low-quality blog. One of the things I’ve always taken pride in is my ability to write a quality blog and keep people entertained, even if it is only for a few minutes every day or even if it is just less than ten people.

With this, I’m thinking about taking a break from blogging. After eight years of putting my thoughts out there for the world to read, I feel like I’ve done it all. Nothing interesting is happening to me, other than being critically ill, and there’s nothing that I really want to put on the internet. If you need to contact me, my AIM is nuclearwintersky. Although I’m not really on AIM a lot these days, either. I guess the internet was something fun when I was 19-26 and now it’s just something that’s a bit of a bother. When posting becomes a chore, it’s not something I want to do. Maybe I just need one blog and not two.

July 4th, 2008 by Echos

Live and Learn

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I just deleted my Guestbook here. It was being hit by spam, about four a day, ever since I opened it. It’s sad that I cannot even have a guest book on my own site anymore without some spammers coming in and filling it up with nonsense. Before they took it over, I deleted the Guestbook off of Nuclear•Winter too.

Speaking of sites, I registered JamieVaugh.com. I told Dennis about it after I registered it until 2010. He said no more domains. I thought he was just being controlling, and then I looked at my account. I currently have twenty three domains registered. No, they weren’t all mine. Over the years, people have asked me to register domains for them, and for some reason, I’ve done it. Most of those people I don’t even talk to anymore. It’s sad we were once friends, so close that I bought them domains and we commented on each other’s blogs all the time, and now I don’t even know if they’re alive anymore. So I struck a deal with Dennis. I would cancel, rent out, or sell the majority of the domains in my account.

Canceling the domains just means that they will not renew in 2009. A few of them are set to renew this year, and I’m going to put a stop to that now. I don’t know what I was thinking when I registered those sites. I won’t do that again. Live and learn.

June 25th, 2008 by Echos

Rambling On

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I deleted some of my pages on here. I know I said I was never going to pay anymore money to Flickr, and I’m not. I just want to have all of my stuff on my site. I don’t trust other applications or places. Weird, aren’t I?

I need to figure out what to do with my sites. I have what seems like so many, yet I don’t have any motivation to do anything with them. I always wanted just a personal site, but I feel like I’ve done that already.

In other news, I was browsing around some pages earlier, and I seen where there are many people out there that want MacBooks or MacBook Pros. I have a MacBook Pro. Unfortunately, I’m afraid to use it because I don’t have an extended warranty on it. Not that those are any good. I bought one for my iBook and it was supposed to cover accidental damage. Some joke ran a red light, I slammed on the breaks and my iBook hit the dash and smashed. It cost me $800 to get it repaired. The warranty didn’t cover anything. I don’t know what people are looking for in their laptops, but I want to say that I don’t think the MacBook Air is really a good buy. You can’t save anything off of it. It reminds me of my first strawberry iMac.

To me, that would be more trouble than the computer is worth. Tracking down a drive. No start up disk if something goes wrong. But to each his own. Maybe I am privileged after all?

June 4th, 2008 by Echos

Eight Years Strong and Growing!

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Eight years and one hour ago, I sat down at this very desk, on a now-old and clunky, PowerPC laptop, and posted my first ever blog. It was a sunny, warm Sunday evening, and I’d just gotten home from shopping around 7pm to open my email up and found a note from my friend Josh that he had set up Blogger.com for my site. I was happy and estatic. I sat perched at what would be my post, ready to start telling the world about me. When I drew a blank. Yes, my mind went blank. I couldn’t think of a single thing to post that I wanted the world to know. Where would my blog go? Would I post simply about my day, or my thoughts or both? Would people like what I had to say?

Up till then, I had no problem with publishing my thoughts and skillful writing abilities on the web. In the form of emails or on message boards. These people were my friends. They already liked me.

I sat there, staring at the screen. Then I just started to type. Within ten minutes, my first post was online. I posted again some four hours later. Doesn’t everyone do that when they first discover online publishing? Post twice, sometimes minutes apart? =)

I posted once a day until the 7th of June. Then my laptop malfunctioned, and I couldn’t get online regularly anymore. I had to walk to the library and use the computer there. That got old really quick, but there was nothing I could do about it until October when I got my first internet computer: A strawberry iMac. That thing is still running somewhere in this family.

Blogging has introduced me to new people, ideas, and thoughts that I know otherwise, I wouldn’t have. I learned from my web experiences. I learned code. At first, it was just enough to post entries, now I’m confident in saying that I could make entire pages, if I wanted to. I learned FTP and how to install CGI blogware. I learned to adapt and change with the times, and there’s nothing wrong with thinking the past was good. I learned from my mistakes, both in blogging and in friendships.

I have blogged with Blogger, Greymatter, MovableType, pMachine, and something called Blossxm. I have had over ten blog domains. I have been hosted with over five different hosts. What have I learned from this? That I’m happy here on crimsonsparkle.net, with the hosts I have and the blogware that I have installed. It truly has been a good eight years. Here’s to eight more!