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Wow, let me spill my inner most thoughts and hobbies
here!
- Content development - I originally had thoughts
of generating part time retirement income base on Google
advertising. My first blog, codewiz51.blogspot.com is hit by
roughly 30 unique visitors per day. Developers do not tend
to click Google text ads. I've given up on advertising for
the time being and am concentrating on content development.
- Efficient blog design - I am most
interested in successful delivery of information. I
study the lessons of Liz Strauss in her
blog. Liz's blog routed me to
Vandelay Design, which has a number of excellent
tutorials. From Vandelay, I followed the train to
Veerle
Pieters blog. Mr. Pieters' site one of the best
jumping off points I could have asked for. (This
entire chain was started by searching Google with the search
terms 'legitimate successful blog'.
- Autos - I absolutely dislike cars with a passion.
To me, cars are simply a way to get from point A to point B.
I drive a Toyota Matrix. It gets 33 miles per gallon,
has a radio, an air conditioner and a manual transmission.
Beyond that, you're only making a statement that you are
successful by Madison Avenue criteria.
- Travel - I travel to Arcadia, OK a lot. I
also travel to Fox Lair Farms in Piedmont, OK. Beyond
that, I've kind of lost interest. I mostly travel by
meeting foreigners in this country and learning how to cook
their food. I used to travel a lot, but found out its
no fun after 9/11 and the oil price shocks. When I do
travel, I prefer to go by Toyota Sienna mini-van. We
have a DVD player and I can watch a movie while my kids
drive. (It gets about 26 mpg on the highway.)
- Politics - We're turning into a bureaucratic
socialist state. The media has already crowned a black
guy named Barack Hussein Obama for president. His
voting record indicates he is a socialist. In my
opinion, he's a lot more like Mugabe, and a lot less like
Mandela. I wish he were a lot more like Bishop Desmond
Tutu. Supposedly, he is going to bring us hope and
change things in Washington. We'll see. (I also
think until we reform the lobbying industry in our country,
nothing will change. We've legalized bribery in this
country; we call it lobbying.)
- Computers -
I make a living programming
the infernal things. However, computers are not synonymous
with software development. If our cars and airplanes
were as reliable as most retail computers, a lot more of us
would be pushing daisies today. Like all things
man-made, some things about computers are really good, and
some things are really bad. Mostly, computers
rank right up there with the IRS on my list of things to
avoid.
- Software Development - I like to
develop software. It's my job. It's also a lot
of fun. I think software is entirely too unreliable.
Until the combination of computers and software begin to
behave a lot more like refrigerators, stoves and ovens, they
will always require vast levels of support. My goal is
to be able to buy a computer, plug it in, and have it work
like a refrigerator. It runs and it keeps things cold.
For just a little more money, you can install an ice maker
and be really happy. Microsoft seems to think .Net
will save us from ourselves. We'll see.
- My wiki - If you want to see my real passion,
follow my
wiki topics. I love developing content on a wiki.
- Free Palestine - I am tired of my tax
dollars supporting oppression on the
West Bank.
I hope the world will listen one day to the cries of the
Palestinian Christians for
help. I know it's not fashionable, but its my opinion
and I am sticking with it.
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