My Life Blog

…I’ve been upgrading my site. If you are reading this within a feed reader, you’ll notice absolutely nothing. However, if you’d like to click on over to my site, you’ll see a few new things.

To begin with, I discarded my Typepad blog in favor of a self-hosted blog using Wordpress. I’ve also separated out my life ramblings into its own blog. The thought process there is that friends and family probably care more about this content than the content I might offer up that is more work-related. So that implies that I have a work blog and a life blog. Hopefully, I’m not over-exposed!

I’m hoping to eventually get my resume up, but for now its a placeholder. Its not so much that I want you all to know what my qualifications are, its more that I want to be more publicly accountable for managing my accomplishments. Said another way, I’ve been considering my recent accomplishments and feel like they aren’t in keeping with my standards, so I am hoping that my online resume will be a constant reminder of what I want to achieve professionally.

For those of you that we always send Flickr links to, well, those days are over. I’ve added a photo gallery to the site to make it pretty seamless. Of course, you can still go to Flickr, but you have less reason to now. The gallery is pretty cool; there is a sets page and if you care to drill down into a set, you can see thumbnail pictures of the set’s pictures. If you want to view the larger version of the picture, just click on the thumbnail. Lastly, you can also find photos by tag.

As I mentioned, most of the technology is Wordpress and a few plugins for Wordpress that I was able to install. Other parts of the site are served up from a Ruby on Rails application. The astute reader will note that there is not much for a Rails app to really do. You would be right. However, I’m setting myself up for future features.

If you are curious about the picture in the masthead, that was taken in Kauai (of course) from the lanai of the house we stay in on the North side. I chose this picture because it has a terrarium like feel to it which I think is quite funky. Unfortunately, the photo quality leaves a lot to be desired.

I hope you find the site more appealing!

If you perform a search on chicfila.com on Yahoo, my Chic-Fil-A and Ketchup post is tops on Yahoo’s list.  You can try the search here.

So it had me wondering if they had a website at all.  Turns out its www.chic-fil-a.com as you might expect.  However, it would have been wise for them to register chicfila.com as the hyphened domain name is entirely too hard for most people to get right.

I was thinking if I had entered the same search criteria on Google, that they would have given me a "did you mean…", but the same thing happened — no www.chic-fil-a.com.  But at least you are spared reading my complaint about their ketchup policy.

Man, I’ve now seen it all. Get a load of this!

I stumbled across this site which has created a stock market for blogs! Its kind of a fantasy stock market with blogs as the object being traded.

I’m not proud of the numbers, but you can check out my valuation here. You will note that my value is $1,632.35.

I’m not completely sure what to think of this, but I’m noting that my valuation is on the upswing. I’m now going to reference this instead of my daily biorhythm.

It wasn’t a pack of bubble gum. It wasn’t a car. It wasn’t the Hope Diamond.

But if you go to www.zeldman.com you’ll know what I stole.

There, I feel like at least one wrong has been righted.

Just as I resisted the cell phone and grocery self-service, so too have I resisted web logs and web-logging. But since I have several web logs on my daily surf list, I feel in some small way that maybe I owe a little bit of myself back to the Universe.

And so here I am.

I can’t imagine who would be entertained and amused by my goings-ons, but it is not up to me to decide. I don’t feel particularly enlightened much of the time and occasionally feel downright uninteresting. But alas, I write on nonetheless…perhaps to an audience of one or a very few.

If you are here by accident or invitation, I hope the visit was worth the minute or two out of your life that you’ll never get back.