Life is an adventure. A good life is worth selling the movie rights. These are my story notes.
BBC NEWS | Health | Scientists make ‘bionic’ muscles
Scientists have developed artificial, super-strength muscles which are powered by alcohol and hydrogen.
I don’t know about you, but when I read this the first thing I thought about was Bender from Futurama. With a little luck Matt Groening will be right about cryogenics, and I’ll be able to have Nixon’s head on my mantle. The future looks brighter already.
-Chris
I’ve been known to have my OCD moments. It’s usually when I have something to do, and my OCD subconscious takes over to invoke Procrastination Mode. Why do I find myself completely organizing my MP3 archive when what I started out to do was just transfer it to my G5? Why can my desk be cluttered for months, but I suddenly have to clean it when a piece of uninteresting code needs to get written? Why have I not written anything to my blog in months? It’s the power of Procrastinative OCD…
I have been stuck in a blogging loop since December 31st of 2005…
WordPress 2.0 was released on that day. Needless to say, that time of the year can be hectic. (Even more hectic when the SAN that houses the db for a large client chose that night to die…) I still managed to try to upgrade from WordPress 1.52 to WordPress 2.0 while waiting for a call back from a HP tech… My upgrade blew chunks because it didn’t have my complete attention. So, I restored my backup and left it alone.
From that moment forth my urges to write have hit an upgrade roadblock. I figure I shouldn’t write anything else until I upgrade; as if I am waiting for the pressure to write to overcome the inertia of having to work through the upgrade. I can always find something more interesting to do than to come back to an upgrade project that doesn’t have an externally imposed hard deadline.
Then I bought a new server, and I should really move the site to the new server before doing the WordPress upgrade… And so on, and so on, and so on… Needless to say, I stayed in this loop for a while.
WordPress 2.0.1 has been out long enough for me to consider it stable, and I ran out of distracting things to do tonight, so I finally did the upgrade. Maybe I’ll get some more writing now that I’ve cleared the WordPress Upgrade off my excuse list? Then again, maybe not; I still have to move 50+ websites to the new server…
-Chris
Cash pours in for student with $1 million Web idea
If you have an envious streak, you probably shouldn’t read this.
Because chances are, Alex Tew, a 21-year-old student from a small town in England, is cleverer than you. And he is proving it by earning a cool million dollars in four months on the Internet.
Selling porn? Dealing prescription drugs? Nope. All he sells are pixels, the tiny dots on the screen that appear when you call up his home page.
This is one of those ideas that will work just a couple of times before it becomes annoying. Even now, to look at this guy’s home page is to give yourself a headache. Thank the elder gods that this guy didn’t allow animated gifs!!!
Still… It is a little inspiring. I’ve had Tampa Bay Ads sitting on the back-burner for over a year, and this gave me the impetus to change the format of the site. Do I need $1 per pixel? Nah, I’ll settle for two bits a pixel. That should give me enough for a down payment on a 1 bedroom cottage in the San Francisco area…
-Chris
I use Amazon affiliate links in some of my posts. I think it is fair to say my writing is not influenced by the $0.40 I earned in 2022.