Month: June 2002

The Sound of Silence…

Wow. My posting here has been incredibly sparse lately, hasn’t it? It’s the strangest thing – I want to blog, but it seems like I have nothing to say. Add to that the fact that things are kickin’ in to high gear right now as I get ready for my upcoming client meeting – next week Kymberlie, Krista & I are heading to Arizona to meet with a new client. We have a kick-off meeting to get their site redesign underway. Add to that the fact that we are moving their two extensive sites and it’s a bit crazy around here lately.

On the news front, Kymberlie just informed me about the new name for Enron Field. “Minute Maid Park”. Hello? Was anyone thinking about this? I mean, how many bad sex jokes can you spin off of that?

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Immunity…

A HUGE thank you to everyone that posted links for me to Blogwhore: the Webgame and mentioned me in their post. I WON the immunity challenge! Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone for your help in getting me there.. As Michele has pointed out, things are getting HOT over there. Have you visited today? And don’t forget the Blogwhore Blog for even more spice!

Geek Love

I Surrender!

Everyone else is doing it, so I think I will too. I’m going to add “setting up Blogroll” to my list of things to-do. I’ve already started one, but there’s only 2 links in there so far!

My concerns:
1. That it will slow down the loading of my site.
2. I like my “Random Blog Links” list and I don’t think it will work with the Blogroll since it’s PHP. Bummer.
3. What if Blogrolling.com goes away? Poof?! I wish there was a way to “export” your link list so I would have a backup.

On the other hand I like that it’s displaying who has recently updated their blogs. And let’s be honest – there is no way I can get through that entire blog list. I might just have to make an “always” list (the blogs I always read) and a second “more” list for the blogs I try to get to at least once a week. Hmmm… I’m going to have to think on this a bit longer.

Amuse Me

Buy the Book…

Last night at about 5:30 the Sales line rang at the office. Almost always a call that late is just to ask if we provide high-speed Internet access to homes. (We don’t.) So I answered the call with great hesitation to begin with. The man on the other end of the phone wanted to know if we could host his website – built with CGI and CMDL (?) – nope, sorry – Win2k servers, ASP or Cold Fusion only. His response? “Well, I guess I’ll have to go and buy a book and learn ASP. I can probably learn that in a week.”

I must have laughed for at least half an hour over that, and it made me giggle all night whenever I thought about it.

This morning he called again. This time I was prepared with the speech, and when I mentioned that we run ASP or Cold Fusion with SQL 7 he responded with, “PHP will work with SQL 7, right?” Yes, but we don’t host PHP here. “But it works with SQL 7?” Yes, but we don’t run it on our servers here! Yes, it could be run on them, but we don’t. We don’t support it either. So he told me again that he’ll just have to buy a book and learn ASP…

And I laughed all over again.

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More Pimping Time…

I have to let Michele know that as a new, innocent player of Blogwhore: the Webgame, I didn’t realize how critical it was to pimp her, Jill (aka JadedJu) and Ernie. (Why is it that whenever I say Ernie’s name I start singing “Oops, I Did it Again”?) And of course we have the Blogwhore leader, Shel with the cool, funky shoes. Matter of fact, I was *so* excited to discover who the commentators were – I love you. I love you all.

Ah, the history here. Isn’t it funny to recall how you found a blog? I don’t remember how I found Michele’s site originally – it was a long time ago, probably close to a year ago. I found Shel’s site through hers. I found Jill through D. As for Ernie? How the heck can you miss him? Seems like I’ve visited his site forever.

I adore all these people and read their blogs all the time. How about you?

By the way – that last post? I really need your help. Can you link to Blogwhore: the webgame and mention me in the post. Just me, none of the other participants. Please? Pretty please? With sugar on top? You’ll be helping me with the immunity challenge. I’ll be so thankful…