Wed Apr 9 19:09:54 PDT 2003

Occasionally I develop a bit of an unhealthy obsession about getting other people to visit my server. I’ve got some stuff up on it, but it’s mostly just notes to myself (the plans/blog stuff) or photos over on the gallery side of the site. The gallery I can justify easily enough. It looks good and is a good way of organizing the photos both for sharing with others short term and for archival purposes as well. The plans are just random notes and musings from all kinds of projects and other stuff that I’ve worked on over the years. I’m more hoping that Google will hit them someday so that I’ll be able to search them myself since the best search tool I have for them right now is ‘grep’. Also, through google I’ve found some answers to technical questions that I’ve had on other people’s web sites, so I’d like to think that one of these pages may someday be useful to somebody else who puts the right search string into google.

So today I ran across http://www.blogshares.com/ which is somewhat like the Hollywood Stock Exchange, http://www.hsx.com/, but for blog websites. The payoff is related to number of hits, so it’s actually a closer resemblance to the real stock exchange than HSX is. And I couldn’t resist. I modified the index.php file in my home directory to display the latest plan file and then registered the page so that my ‘blog’ would be picked up by their servers and tracked. Kinda silly really. hopefully it won’t become a hotspot of viewing since I’ve only got this tiny IDSL line, but I don’t think that there’s really any serious danger of that happening anytime soon.

On to other projects. I can’t seem to get Laurie’s Palm 500 to reliably communicate to my ancient Palm III via IR. Maybe somebody has the answer written down somewhere and google can find it for me… Maybe that’s just wishful thinking too :-)