These days I am loathe to READ an explanation on how to do anything. It’s too slow. And boring.
Instead, I want a fast, fun video tutorial on-line.
Here’s a perfect example …
Since the NHL is dead to me … (I believe the playoffs have been cancelled) … I can turn my attention to NBA.
I like everything about this guy, the star of the NBA Raptors out of Toronto.
He’s the featured blogger on NBA.com right now:
I know that I seem like a quiet guy to a lot of people, but I’m actually not. I like to talk and I’ve been told I’m funny. That actually surprises people because I come off as a shy person most of the time.
I love basketball, but when I’m not playing I like to chill at home a lot too. I have every gaming system out right now, but my favorite is the XBOX 360. If I’m not doing that I’m on my computer. I’m kind of a computer geek. I’m always surfing the internet, reading, or downloading stuff. I’m also working on my website, http://www.chris-bosh.com, all the time. Me and my friend are revamping the whole thing.
I’m going to have a lot of cool stuff to check out. It’s a chance for people to see what I’m like of the court. I have a Podcast called Max ‘n’ out too! Me and a radio personality named Devo Brown are on it just talking about current events, entertainment, movies, etc.
I love WordPress, the software that runs this blog.
Just set up a new blog for a friend. Only US$15 / year including the domain name.
Sweet!
ANYONE can afford that for their own website.
One complaint. When I went to purchase the $15 domain name, the process was a nightmare.
This is the evil page:
Perhaps it works on a Windoze machine and IE, but it was near impossible for me to get the confusing process to work on a Mac using Safari, Opera and Firefox browsers.
I will complain to Matt, the front man for WordPress.
1) Vanity
2) Safe archive of personal photos, travelogues and musings
3) A (weird) kind of communication with friends & family
4) Connecting with friends I haven’t met yet
5) Sharing valuable info on Gymnastics Coaching and Hiking
I tell you this because I got “tagged”.
Russ Beebe, Founder of the California Wine Hikes site – is known on the intertubes as The Wine Hiker. (Drink in his wine hiking blog.)
I know what you are thinking …
If you have wine, why hike?
(A good question, Russ.)
I tell you all about Russ this because Russ has “tagged” me in one of those internet games for people who have too much time free in their real lives.
I answer the question, “Why do I blog?”, then tag 5 other suckers bloggers.
I inflict pay forward this question on to:
Ron at For Your Approval
Kate at Kate of Late
Rick at Nude Hiker
Rogier at Blue Peak
And a NEW friend …
Sandra at Florida Hikes
Kathy Sierra knows of what she speaks. She’s the genius behind the Creating Passionate Users blog.
What is the very best way to format information?
How do you make a point in a friendly, interesting, even inspiring way?
Creating Passionate Users: My Favorite Graphs… and the future
I aspire to make images something like this. (I’ve even been looking at software.)
Note: This is the same Kathy Sierra involved in a recent blogging controversy. But it’s business as usual now.
The new image atop the home page is wonderous Lake Ohara.
original photo – flickr
all photos – Lake O’hara
There is a circle of Hell where geeks are forced to sift through internet forums forever trying to find the answer to a simple question.
I’m amazed so many idiots have so much time.
When your software advises you to “check the forum” for support, start pulling your hair out.
I’ve been in just such a Hell of late on the WordPress.com forums. This is commercial software though I am using the FREE version to put together a new website for a friend.
WordPress.com is fantastic. But they’ve bungled something simple on their site this time. A feature has not been working for over a day and it is making users CRAZY.
No doubt they have people working to correct the glitch, but there has been no official notice from the company so far.
That’s lame. I’ll write the founder Matt Mullenweg to ask: Why not notify users instantly via the “Dashboard” when a feature fails on WordPress?
If you are looking for a great internet niche business, start-up a consumer complaints aggregater.
Pick up RSS feeds from the 50 million plus blogs out there. And summarize the lack of love for businesses in a funny, easy-to-read form.
You need a good domain name. Something like: Complaints.com
Actually that one is already taken. I recommended it on Boxing Day 2006.
Taking a sober second look at it today, it’s actually a terrible website. The submission process is email. And the browsing / search interface looks like a porn site from 1997.
I am still waiting for my first free email newsletter.
Almost ANYTHING would be better than this. Leave a comment below if you have another consumer complaints site you like.
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