Asymptomatic

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Focus
October 24, 2006

I have no notes from my meetup in New York with the friendly WordPress bloggers there, but I will get to writing about it eventually. There’s a topic I need to dance lightly around first.

This site has always been my own ramblings and unfocused entries. This isn’t likely to change. What I do need to adjust is what I care about and how it affects what I write.

I started this site to dump my writing onto. A few days ago, I wrote something about the potato people living under my front porch - a short work of fiction - and got many messages from people wondering if I had gone crazy. Well that’s really what the site is supposed to be, you know? Writing. Of whatever quality and substance.

I also stopped using my own home-grown blog/CMS software because I was spending more time maintaining it than I was writing. Ironically, I became very involved in WordPress development after switching. While I see it necessary to write about things that matter to me - blogging being one of those things - I really should concentrate on what I love about what I write, even if I’m writing about something that I hate. Perhaps I should focus on those things on my own, rather than worry about what other people are writing.

Back From The Dead
October 20, 2006

I’m listening to an episode of This American Life on XM radio about people who have come close to death. The first act was about that flight recently whose front tire wouldn’t set itself for landing.

They interviewed three folks from the flight. Survivors. These people recounted their time on the plane before the crash emergency landing.

Hit the Road for NYC
October 19, 2006

This weekend, instead of attending the Philly meetup that I organize, I’m heading up to New York City to visit with Jason and his meetup.

In case you wondered, the Philly meetup is still on, even though I won’t be there, I’m sure some people will show. Check the RSVP list. Don’t forget that the Philly Weblogger (non-WordPress) folks show up right afterward, so be sure to have a beer and wait around.

IMAP for Gmail?
October 18, 2006

Greetings, email users! Even if you are not a regular user of Google’s Gmail service, would you please take a minute to visit their feature suggestion page and write in their “I have a better idea” box the following four letters:

IMAP would let us use our regular desktop email clients to get messages from our Gmail accounts.