Finally got a website up
Topic: Putting up a website
Yesterday I decided that since my trying to do my own website was taking so long, I should at least get up a business card type of site. The web authoring tool I'm using comes with my service. I've been using one of the templates instead of 'writing in html' myself. But one must use it online and I have dial-up. The instructions aren't clear, one must try endless variations of things which, to see the results of, ends up taking a long time. One can only learn the system by doing, and even then not that well. On top of that my Internet Explorer browser, which I only use for this purpose because the builder will not work with my Safari browser, keeps getting hung up. Aah... So, the business card: couldn't find a template for that. Next best thing, the simplest template I could find. No problem, this will be done in a jiffy. Well that too took so long. I could have been done with the other in the time it took me to build a new simpler site. But I finally published it to the web and I wonder when I'll have the nerve to try any more with it. It is far from perfect, a work in progress, maybe or maybe not.

First Musings on Starting a Blog
Topic: Blog Writing
I've finally started a blog. It will surely contain a lot of nonsense. I often have to write a lot of that before anything of interest comes out. Perhaps I'll think of a way to separate the two. I know, its called editing. But I also like being able to see the thought process, so I may have a tendency to leave the nonsense. And, so now what do I write about? I just wanted to get this thing set up and on the road. I have to write something so I can actually see it. And who knows when I'll be ready to show it to anyone else.

I realized, when I write in my (paper) journal I have no real consideration of whether or not my thoughts will be understood by anyone. I basically write for me to remember things that have happened or the thoughts I've had, and as a maybe trove for someone in the future to come across, maybe learn from, maybe see what another person's journey was. But to publish something for anyone to read one must have some awareness of whether it will be meaningful to the 'audience'. And it just hit me that writing a blog will be quite different than writing a journal in that way. Here I was thinking I'd finally be able to put out there some of the points of views I have on things and it would be as simple as one two three, but NO, one must still have a concern with how things are read, how things come across. Hmm. I'm not sure about this now.