Blogs, Personal Websites, The Swalrus Network, Paid gigs, etc
It looks so good. But looks can be deceiving. The upgrade hosed my catergories, all of them are now blank. Really it’s not that big of a deal, I’ve been wanting to get rid of a few of them anyway. I’ll just use this as an opportunity to fix my catergory system and maybe add a few meta tags while I’m at it.
Later!
wordpress admin pages are really not designed for the mobile internet
I figured out how to upload pictures directly to this blog… it was in a box 2 inches below where I type the blogs in… and I design web pages for a living. Oh well, it’s working now, so I think I’ll spice the place up a little with some camera phone pics of whatever I’m talking about. Could be fun.
In the same vein, I’ve also decided to use the “notes” feature on the 8125 to get down all the little tidbits of blog comments that I think of. When I’m on the Metro I constantly think of little things to say. But I never have the time to get them up on the blog, not that it really matters because nobody reads this thing. But it would be nice to get the old ideas out of my head (to make room for new ones). I’m pretty sure I can only have like 30 things going on in my head at the same time, that includes appointments, projects, upcoming birthdays.
Today on the way home I’ll try to set up the mo-blog again. I had it working on the Treo but it was never a smooth system. With windows mobile I’m hoping I can just call up this page and log in like normal. Should be a pretty smooth process.
Later!
I’ve set up the art blog over at swalrus.org
I’ve linked it to my flickr account so all I have to do is upload a picture to flickr and then click “blog it” to send it over to the site. It’s been working pretty well. I’ve documented some of the projects I did last year. I’m trying to keep it updated regularly. We’ll see how long it lasts.
Later!
I’ve had a few projects in the works for the last few months. I had some graphic design work for Amar, a nursery mural for Will, some comic book style portraits for Ellen, and a cardboard boat. I actually got paid for one of these.
Not that Will won’t pay me, but I haven’t actually finished yet. That’s coming next Sunday. I’ll post pictures when I finish. Which brings me to my next project, well not really a project more like an outlet. I’m turning Swalrus.org into an art blog, somewhere I can post in progress pictures/videos/pieces. So now I’ll have 3 levels of websites that I may or may not maintain. Professional, Personal, and Art.
I think this will help me finish more projects instead of giving up in the middle.
We’ll see!
as of a few seconds ago there were 256 posts on this site. This making it 257. My first post was from December 2004 a long time ago in a small office in Arlington. The old blog has come a long way since then.
Two hundred fifty-six is also:
* The number of characters in the new Braille 8-dot system.
* The number of different values in one byte, which makes it the typical number of different values in each color channel of a digital color image (see color space encoding).
* The year AD 256 and 256 BC.
* The Split-Screen Level in Pacman
* The number of counties in Texas.
* The number of characters in Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel The Master and Margarita.
* An area code in Alabama.
* The number of regular season football games in the NFL.
* The frequency of Middle C on a piano in hertz.
Later!
Mark