Well, that wasn't TOO painful
Jolly good, got FTP to my site working - only took about five attempts. Silly me not noticing that I had to include the @oneandoneis2.org part in the username.
*mutter mutter*
This isn't the first blog I've kept - there was a generic 1+1=2 blog, that I just couldn't be bothered to keep up because no bugger seemed to read it. There's another one on a different topic that I still add to, tho as far as I know, no bugger reads it. And now there's this one, which is quite likely to also go unread. Also, I tried not to be overly-geeky in the original blog, because it wasn't a "for-geeks" blog. Well, it wasn't aimed at anyone, really. That's probably why it faded away.
This has "Linux" built right into the URL, so if you're not a geek. . . well, you should have known better!
Why am I starting it, therefore?
Because every day for the last week, and many other days, I've been bored out of my skull at work. So this is something mildly more constructive than rechecking all my bookmarks every five bloody minutes.
Plus, my website's just started to get lots of visits (starting at a manic 31,000 hits a day on Satruday, dwindling to a steady 2,000 now, at the ned of the week) after a link was shoved to the *Linux is not Windows* page so there *is* actually a chance that it'll get read.
Note that this blog won't replace the website. Some people say "If you want to get a message across, say it in a blog". I don't. I say "If you want to get a message across, put it in a nice web page that people can link so /other people/ can discuss it in blogs". It's just a difference in style.
And style is what a lot of writers online don't have. I don't mean to boast, but I'm a better writer than many of the people who are publishing on the web at the moment. It's been a long-standing hobby of mine. I have many bits & pieces on Writing.com, with pretty high reviews. I have a couple dozen emails of complimentary feedback on my Linux web pages, and (as far as I know) people still use my diving website as a reference for numerous topics. All this makes me fairly confident in saying that I can write pretty well. And since RSI is no longer a concern, courtesy of Peter Egoscue, I might as well indulge that hobby and write some stuff. And here it is. Woo!
Now, off to look for some Firefox extensions to make the whole thing easier - I'm sure there must be some by now. . .
*mutter mutter*
This isn't the first blog I've kept - there was a generic 1+1=2 blog, that I just couldn't be bothered to keep up because no bugger seemed to read it. There's another one on a different topic that I still add to, tho as far as I know, no bugger reads it. And now there's this one, which is quite likely to also go unread. Also, I tried not to be overly-geeky in the original blog, because it wasn't a "for-geeks" blog. Well, it wasn't aimed at anyone, really. That's probably why it faded away.
This has "Linux" built right into the URL, so if you're not a geek. . . well, you should have known better!
Why am I starting it, therefore?
Because every day for the last week, and many other days, I've been bored out of my skull at work. So this is something mildly more constructive than rechecking all my bookmarks every five bloody minutes.
Plus, my website's just started to get lots of visits (starting at a manic 31,000 hits a day on Satruday, dwindling to a steady 2,000 now, at the ned of the week) after a link was shoved to the *Linux is not Windows* page so there *is* actually a chance that it'll get read.
Note that this blog won't replace the website. Some people say "If you want to get a message across, say it in a blog". I don't. I say "If you want to get a message across, put it in a nice web page that people can link so /other people/ can discuss it in blogs". It's just a difference in style.
And style is what a lot of writers online don't have. I don't mean to boast, but I'm a better writer than many of the people who are publishing on the web at the moment. It's been a long-standing hobby of mine. I have many bits & pieces on Writing.com, with pretty high reviews. I have a couple dozen emails of complimentary feedback on my Linux web pages, and (as far as I know) people still use my diving website as a reference for numerous topics. All this makes me fairly confident in saying that I can write pretty well. And since RSI is no longer a concern, courtesy of Peter Egoscue, I might as well indulge that hobby and write some stuff. And here it is. Woo!
Now, off to look for some Firefox extensions to make the whole thing easier - I'm sure there must be some by now. . .
1 Comments:
Hi, thank you for your really good article "LinW" - I wanted to say "Thank You" for it.
Your article has given me some inspiration and another point of view on this topic, so I searched your blog to find the right place to comment it. I hope this is the right place ;-)
I try to copy your image of a car and a motorcyle and use it at the next best discussion ;-) (asked or not).
You made a really good job at this text and I want to give you the backlink from where I came, maybe interesting for you? http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=63315
BTW: I'm sorry that your gf switched from Ubuntu to the daemon - next time just safe your home directory (if it is not already on another partition, but to make a backup is safer, you know) and make a fresh install from CD and then get Automatix (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=66563)and update the more complicated or exotic packages. I think then your nice gf will be happy (and you and your sense of right and wrong, too ;-)
Thank you for your thoughts!
Oliver
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