— Tuesday, Aug 3rd, 2010 @ 4:11pm
Back in August of 2008 I was in Minneapolis, about halfway through a year of chemo. I’d been living on the street, doing my Interferon, for a couple months previous to August. Several friends, from high school days (1966-70), and one from the 8th Grade, had intervened, basically, and talked me into, and financed, moving back into an apartment I’d lived in two years previously.
As the months went by (slowly) Nancy talked me into moving back to California. I’d left Cali (for good, as far as I was concerned), in early 1984, and moved to Montréal, where I’d lived for a few years earlier in the Seventies.
But there was a ‘deal’ of sorts: They’d help me move to, and relocate in, the San Francisco Bay Area, and at some point I would do “what you’re meant to do.” What they, and others before them, meant with that “meant to”, or “be good at” stuff, was write.
In view of the fact that a deal’s a deal (until ‘cancelled/changed/updated, etc., like those garden variety “Terms of Service” we see everywhere these days) I’m going to start writing bits and pieces of things while I can still remember things, for the most part.
— Tuesday, Jul 13th, 2010 @ 10:04am
Here’s another true-life quote from Clients From Hell:
All RSS Feeds
Client: ”So I just wrote my first post on the blog you made for us. Can you publish it to all RSS feeds?”
Me: ”Do you mean publish it to your RSS feed? Because that happens automatically.”
Client: ”No, I mean ALL RSS feeds. Like every one on the internet.”
Me: ”That’s not possible.”
Client: ”Yes it is, I read an article about how RSS is the equivalent of newspapers on the internet, so if I post something everyone on the internet should see it, just like everyone reading a newspaper would see the front page.”
Me: ”Er… that’s not really true, that’s not how RSS works.”
Client: ”Well then this whole “blog” thing isn’t what I paid you to do, then, is it?”
— Monday, Jul 5th, 2010 @ 8:51pm
I’m pretty busy these days, working on The Nils website. I’ve hit a very tricky (meaning: complicated) part of the thing, and it has really gotten to me, at times. “Rare” times, but, wow, really making me crazy sometimes.
Hah, if you know Niko or Carlos, well, you don’t have to take my word for it! But I’m chillin’ out a bit, and am just going to put in another strong week (like last week) and not let some of the complicated stuff get to me.
What else is up? Well … keep reading >