|
|
Wednesday, March 15, 2000
01:14 p.m.
Hmmm.... I've been feeling pretty ambivalent about my "career" lately. I have a hard time seeing where it's going. Instead of moving forward, I feel like I've peaked; I have a hard time picturing where or what I'd like to go or do next.
But everyone feels that way, right?
I've been toying with changing TanqueLogue to match this site. It's funny how I just threw this HTML together quickly, and I like it better than the stuff I've spent so much more time trying to fix.
Huffman, is your page ready yet? (he typed, figuring H would never see it)
Tuesday, March 7, 2000
12:36 p.m.
Mentioned this on TanqueLogue, but here's some more text.
Last night Jim comes home late, a little breathless, and tells us he's got a killed cat in his car. Shari's first thought is that it is one of ours, but he quickly clarifies; he was on his way home from a meeting and saw a cat that had been recently hit by a car flailing about on the side of the car. He pulled over, pulled out a plastic laundry basket to pick the cat up, but by the time he reaches it, it's stopped moving. Another passer-by who stopped, a woman, said that it was too late. The cat had died.
It was a full grown cat, with a mostly black coat and no collar or tags. It was bloody. It's toungue protruded from it's mouth between it's fangs.
Jim took the basket out back while I grabbed the shovel and got batteries for the flashlight. Sammi was inside at this point, but Jack and Hrothgar watched intently, and Oscar soon joined them, sniffing at the carcass. I held the flashlight while Jim dug the hole.
We have some large concrete blocks in our yard along the fence-line, and Jim dragged two of them over to cover the mound once the hole was filled in. Hrothgar jumped up to sit on top as soon as they were in place. Jack sniffed some more.
Then Jim took the laundry basket back inside, running water over it in the tub since we don't have any outside spigots. Oscar came in and he and Sammi both spent time sniffing at it.
I never saw the cat alive, so perhaps it's easy for me to put it aside; Shari was bummed out anyways.
I sure do like having our cats around.
Friday, March 3, 2000
04:44 p.m.
Whew, working with Blogger in Mozilla is a bit of a hassle. I can't wait til they get that sucker finished. To help my sanity, I'm using Pitas instead. Yes, I'm a dork.
Friday, March 3, 2000
11:41 a.m.
My second Pitas entry!! And you thought I'd never come back.
Well, I wasn't sure, anyways. Even my ego has its limits, and I can't imagine needing TWO weblogs. Still, I like to type. Especially when I know I'm the only one reading.
Actually, I really should come up with a purpose for this page. Maybe the cat report I keep planning.
Hmmm....
Thursday, March 2, 2000
05:54 p.m.
Well, well, well. If it isn't another weblog. This one is created using Pitas, and hosted by them as well. So far it seems like a pretty cool service. If I didn't already use Blogger, I'd probably be even more impressed with it, but even so I think its a cool thing.
I don't know how many times I checked out Apathy before I realized that it was hosted by pitas, not Pyra of which Blogger is a part). Eventually, however, I did, and found a clean web tool that is free, cleanly designed, and, well, another excuse to spend time typing into the web. What a world.
Let's see what the differences are.
Hands down, Blogger has more bells and whistles. It is designed to allow multiple authors to make postings, it allows multiple posts in the same day to share the same heading, it refreshes it's "admin" page when you make changes rather than sending you to a confirmation page after you make a change. Judging just by the feature list, it seems like it's been around longer (though I have no idea which came first).
That said, there's something about Pitas that I find quaint. I don't mean that the tool isn't impressive; it is. And the fact that they're offering free web hosting (without any advertising) is very cool indeed.
Since there's no javascripting or IE-specific toys included, the editing process seems crisper somehow, closer to working on a local editor. And I guess it just feels like an under-dog web site. I'm not familiar with the Pitas "web-celebrities" like I am with the Blogger folks (i.e., Ev and Meg), but I'm sure they're out there.
So far I don't see a way to check out a full listing of Pitas sites either (Blogger has a page listing all of the sites who wish to be publicized), though again I suspect that it exists and I just haven't found it yet.
Which will win out? I don't think it's a zero-sum game, at least not at this point. I believe I'll continue to play with both.
|
|
|
|
|