Back to the Future
Spent the last two days wading back into the shallow end of Internet technology, including firing up this blog.
I don’t know much about Wordpress, but my extensive research–browsing a handful of random Google results for “best blogging software” for 15 minutes–indicates that it’s cooler than Blogger et al. On the one hand, I think it’ll be fun to share all my awesome and perceptive thoughts with you. (It’ll no doubt be like if Thomas Jefferson had a blog. Yeah, THAT awesome and perceptive.) On the other hand, part of me thinks it’ll be somewhat out of character for me to be constantly sharing personal thoughts with friends and people who Google “Thomas Jefferson blog”. At the end of the day, I’m hoping it’ll just get me in the habit of writing again and also make me feel like I’m sharing my San Diego experience (and life, for that matter) with someone else. A girlfriend would have worked too, but Wordpress was easier to install.
So in addition to setting up the blog, I also purchased a domain name and set up hosting for my super stealth mode startup. It’s so stealth that sometimes I forget it exists. I previously tried to recruit a couple people to bounce ideas off of and keep me on task. One has no idea what I’m talking about when I explain the product. The other one works 16 hours a day on other stuff. Other than that, it’s working out really well.
But the domain name and hosting should help. I’ve spent a few hours today assessing how much has changed since my web development days in 2003. I kind of forgot that it’s been that long since I coded anything. Apparently during the time I was attending law school and getting free Cheesecake Factory everynight in exchange for my soul, seven years passed and a bunch of programmers made up a whole lot of new cool stuff that I have no clue how to use. And that’s just the stuff I found out about today. Kind of exciting if you’re a quasi-nerd like me though.
So, I’m going to try to make a static prototype of the startup product this week. It’ll make the idea more tangible and easier to understand for the people that don’t quite get it (AKA almost everyone to whom I’ve tried to articulate it). Stay tuned. Yours, –MAB