Mephistos

WEbook sounded so good on the first glance at things.  A way to put your unpublished work out there in front of other (potential) writers and get some comments, review information, and usually much needed feedback.  When I first read of the information I was so incredibly excited.  Heck, they have even have process by which you could get voted up as being a popular book on the site and even offered a publishing deal.  The details are sure worth checking out though before you actually put your hard written work up on the site, especially details in the Terms of Use Agreement. Read more…

Some quick updates since I have been away from the blog for a few days.  Lots of stuff going on in my life right now and I have purposefully put the blog aside for the past few days.  So a few quick things just to get them out there and get a post.  Speaking of posts, that is something to note.  If I don’t post the traffic flow to the website crawls to a sluggish almost stop.  I thought you dear readers hung on every word I had to say and checked in regularly just to make sure I had not said anything.  Guess I am wrong on that one. Read more…

Very quick and short blog here.  Well, that is the intent as I start this thing out.  It was pointed out to me by a friend this eve that the blogs had not been coming through on facebook as a post and that is where she got the information.  This really kind of disturbed as I use that quick little button link to do that automatically as a post to my profile, which pushes it out based on some random theory that is only understood by those out there who understand advanced statistical methodologies.  As some folks post things that I see right away, others take on average of two to three days to show up, and yet others I see nothing of their posts at all but will yet see them on someone else’s page from comment post. Read more…

I fully realize that the vast majority of folks that read this blog are not so interested in the technological aspects of things, but there are a few that read here that are.  Besides, as I have noted before in here, given the nature of my job the technological information is easy for me to spout off when I am busy with other things, especially as I am usually looking at some of it from some perspective or another in relation to something I am doing for work.  Further, sometimes when the thoughts in my head are in dark grim emotional place it is just better to write about something that is generally going to relate to emotions on a very nominal level at best.  So for those that do not appreciate or care for the technology turn back in either later this eve or on the morrow, I promise to amuse you soon and for this early eve some technology that will help you with your website promotion and traffic generation as well as a couple of just cool tools. Read more…

I am driving around somewhere the other day and I got really annoyed about the traffic lights.  It usually works, especially on stretches of by-passes and main through routes that you get stopped by just about as many lights as there are on the stretch of the road.  I have always thought this was kind of lame.  After all, the idea of the traffic signals is to keep traffic flowing in as orderly a fashion as possible.  In fact what usually happens is the lights retard the flow of traffic by causing excessive amounts of stopping. Read more…

A few nights ago I was at a club (we will not mention the name or the location to protect both the innocent and the guilty), but anyway on one side of said club they were playing some techno type music, which I probably have not heard but a few dozen times in the last dozen years and probably all of those but one was in some movie.  However, there is definitely something to be said for a techno beat really wanting to make you move and get your groove on.  Not that I can really dance, but at least I make an effort and with that kind of music I can I am sure work off some calories.  Probably what I should have been doing the other night in retrospect.   Anyway, the name stuck in my head, but what I really am writing about is some more short notes on technology and technology things that are really getting to me today. Read more…

First, a quick lesson or two here about what I am talking about.  SMS is short for Short Message Service and is indeed the process by which cell phones and a few 1000 other technological wonders send those little one line messages that in range of 140 to about a maximum of 160 characters in length.  So along with SMS, notes on social networks, and even tag lines, I got a few peeves I am going to, ahem, talk about. Read more…

You all may recall that a couple of nights ago I sent out a plea to anyone that had done a photo gallery plugin on WordPress to let me know what they were using and how they liked it.  I was not surprised to note that I got nothing in response, I think largely because most of you all do not have blogs and the ones that do are not near so geeky as I am about things like that.  So yesterday eve fairly late, while in and out of some chatting with a friend or two, I decided I would do my own research and experimentation. Read more…

Despite not feeling so great early today, I went to do this alumni networking event at my old university, Transylvania,  this eve.  In theory, I went mostly to met up and see what alumni were active here in the Lexington area as well as actually do some networking.  It was also a nice opportunity to see the inside of some of campus halls that I had not seen in at least fifteen years.  The event was designed for that but also for us to give some insight to the incoming freshmen class as to what they could expect in the real world in regards to particular majors.   In theory it could also be a networking opportunity for upper class-men to met people who are out in the world, but the only ones I noted in attendance that were not the poor required freshman in University Studies 101 were those students that had, ahem, volunteered to assist their respective major.

As I arrived on campus I immediately went back to between 16 and 20 years Read more…

Those few regular readers have already picked up on the fact that I throw out information regarding technological updates when I am struggling to say the things that are inside my head (and heart) here in the blog-o-sphere.   So, yeah, in some ways, I am cheating you by throwing up a technology update, because those are easy to write, require very little outside of my honest opinion on the matter and that is that.  Anyway, here are some tidbits to note about technological things from recent days.

• Zune (the device) is awesome. Yes, I know it is made by Read more…