Archive for July 19th, 2008
Fun With Google
I was relatively bored, so I decided to search for my name in Google. The results were a bit surprising.
I don’t expect to beat people who have the name in the domain name. But I’m #3 and 5! How sweet is that?
Out of more curiosity, I tried the image search. Again, happiness. Nothing on Page 1 or anything like that, but I do have two on Page 2 (this post and this other post on Sapid Existence) and Page 4 had this one, although why it picked up on the archive for that day and not just the post itself is beyond me.
But not all is happy. I guess I need to start watching myself now. Potential employers can very easily look me up. And with those two other blogs of mine linking here, I’ll probably need to watch myself here too. Oh well, I think I can live with that.
The Multiple Author Quandary
I was looking around the blogsphere when I ran across a post asking about the ethical issues of setting up fake accounts on blogs. That one was specifically about setting up a news blog to look like it had multiple authors so that the blog would be picked up by Google News. I don’t plan on doing that, but I have pulled a few similar tricks in my time.
Back when Waffles Radio was a blog for my radio show, I would leave comments as other people so it looked like people were listening and leaving comments. Some of these comments were based on people I know in the real world where I would write what I’m pretty sure they would have said. But there was one alias I used, Steve, that was totally fabricated.
I’ve also been paid by a few people to make posts on a forum so that it would look populated. The posts were real, but when I fulfilled my end of the contract I stopped visiting. (more…)
A Threat, A Promise
It figures that right after I restart raise this blog from the dead Lorelle has a post about why people stop blogging. I guess it could be sad, but I prefer to see things another way.
I think that the decision to end a blog depends partly on the reason why it was started in the first place. Juggle Chainsaws will stop when there’s nothing I can do with programming stuff anymore. Sapid Existence will stop when the photography stops (which could be the day I die, we’ll see about that).
As for this, it’s a whole different ballgame. I started this as a collection of thoughts. Eventually that could either prove to be too much to keep up with because of other commitments taking over my time or I could just get into a line of work where I don’t have much to say that wouldn’t jeopardize my career. I’m already close to that working at a preschool now, but I’ve got Winthrop to fuel a lot of things.
So, about the title…. For one thing, I thought that it just sounded better than just having it be “A Promise.” It makes it more of a necessary thing in my mind. So, I promise/threaten to keep writing this blog until either the passion runs out or I just don’t have time for it anymore. And when that happens, I promise not to just kill it. Instead, I’ll put up a notice of absense letting you know that I’m taking a vacation from blogging. If you are taking the time to read this, then you deserve to see if I’ll be updating in the foreseeable future.