Toccata und Mauve
The soup of the day is cream of broccoli. The special is roasted chicken with angel hair pasta in a pesto sauce.
I recall recently seeing a statistic about the rate of web log creation. Needless to say, it was featured on a, wait for it, web log. I no longer remember the exact figure, or where I saw it. Such is the nature of my memory and the vastness of the Internet.
Tape recorder on...
Make friends with someone at Google and get them to do an add-on that will let me do a Google search limited to my URL history so I can find things I know I've read by using ordinarily useless terms like `blog creation growth'
...tape recorder off
Sorry. Anyway, my brain wants me to say it was 15,000. I don't think it was 15,000 a day, but perhaps 15,000 a week, hardly an unreasonable figure. On one hand, given in excess of 6,000,000,000 people on the planet, blogs haven't reached zombie infection epidemic status as of yet. On the other hand, how many blogs can the average person read? How many unique things are there for people to say?
These thoughts make me feel like I need to justify `opening' this page, adding to the billions of whizzing bits that some might call the textual (as opposed to pictorial) pornography that makes up the bulk of internet traffic. Will I become another empty shell of metalinkage to more interesting sites? Perhaps my text will be tired additional rehashing of partisan subjects everyone is sick of? Maybe I'll enter the black hole of self-absorption, thinking the world cares about the consistency of my belly-button lint and if I toasted that bagel just right.
If I ever reach such lows, please follow the example of Wesley Snipes in "To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar" and take away all my Princess Points.
My name is Nathaniel Trost. This is my blog, there are many like it, but this one is mine. And before we get anywhere, I'll have to explain how I think.
We'll see how long that takes. At present, much of my life is taken up by the practice of software development. And I have a major milestone coming up soon. As if I didn't have enough motivation already, the project was just announced today. Another shot of adrenaline is always nice. I've been active in shipping commercial software for about a decade now. In my own small way I think I can empathize with a grizzled NCO. Even after having been there and done that a bunch of times, some things do still get the old blood pumping.
I recall recently seeing a statistic about the rate of web log creation. Needless to say, it was featured on a, wait for it, web log. I no longer remember the exact figure, or where I saw it. Such is the nature of my memory and the vastness of the Internet.
Tape recorder on...
Make friends with someone at Google and get them to do an add-on that will let me do a Google search limited to my URL history so I can find things I know I've read by using ordinarily useless terms like `blog creation growth'
...tape recorder off
Sorry. Anyway, my brain wants me to say it was 15,000. I don't think it was 15,000 a day, but perhaps 15,000 a week, hardly an unreasonable figure. On one hand, given in excess of 6,000,000,000 people on the planet, blogs haven't reached zombie infection epidemic status as of yet. On the other hand, how many blogs can the average person read? How many unique things are there for people to say?
These thoughts make me feel like I need to justify `opening' this page, adding to the billions of whizzing bits that some might call the textual (as opposed to pictorial) pornography that makes up the bulk of internet traffic. Will I become another empty shell of metalinkage to more interesting sites? Perhaps my text will be tired additional rehashing of partisan subjects everyone is sick of? Maybe I'll enter the black hole of self-absorption, thinking the world cares about the consistency of my belly-button lint and if I toasted that bagel just right.
If I ever reach such lows, please follow the example of Wesley Snipes in "To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar" and take away all my Princess Points.
My name is Nathaniel Trost. This is my blog, there are many like it, but this one is mine. And before we get anywhere, I'll have to explain how I think.
We'll see how long that takes. At present, much of my life is taken up by the practice of software development. And I have a major milestone coming up soon. As if I didn't have enough motivation already, the project was just announced today. Another shot of adrenaline is always nice. I've been active in shipping commercial software for about a decade now. In my own small way I think I can empathize with a grizzled NCO. Even after having been there and done that a bunch of times, some things do still get the old blood pumping.