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It’s the little things in life

August 29th, 2000 | No Comments | Posted in General

As you may recall i decided to self publish a book of selected poems i wrote on mightywords.com a while back. well i did it for a couple of reasons, for one it forced me to edit, and properly lay out my work in the form of an ebook (adobe pdf format) which is something i had wanted to do but didn’t have much motivation after getting this site up. i also was pretty intrigued by the self publishing model mightywords has come up with. putting the book up for sale also gave me a sense of accomplishment as a legitimized published artist. i didn’t expect to make any money from this, but likened the experience to a fishing trip. if someone bites, it would be interesting to see what would come of it. well i sold one copy a while back to someone who visited this site. i didn’t really expect someone coming here to buy it, but it happened. i corresponded a bit with the person who bought it via icq for a while, but have since had a hard drive crash and i don’t have any history of our conversations. although like in many cases i have had to communicate with people in the past, depression was a topic of disucssion. anyways, i check my mailbox a couple weeks ago and low and behold i had received a royalty check from mightywords. i had sold one book and for that they had sent me the sum of $1.50 it may seem strange but i was a bit overcome by the feeling of how what was once this delusion of grandeur actually become a small reality due to the wonder of the internet.

Clearing the Cobwebs

August 23rd, 2000 | No Comments | Posted in General

how pathetic…it’s been quite some time since i did anything here. not a great way to attract an audience. but i do have quite a bit to tell since the site achieved limbo status. i do have the excuse that my wife and i just had another child, but that’s about it. although nothing has appeared on the front end, i have spent a lot of time automating things behind the scenes. ok, here’s where you skip to the text that says i’m back in red if you want to bypass this nerd babble for a sec, but i wanted to share some of this info with anyone that was interested. i like to dabble a bit on the web development side and now have the ability to add news & poems from a form to store it in a database and dynamically update my site. my site is running on iis and uses asp pages connected to an access database. i also added a guestbook as well (i was using an outside service prior to this). anyways i received most of my help doing this by stumbling onto a wonderful site that had some great tutorials. i also got some help from some extremely talented co-workers (i work in the it dept. of a large e-commerce site). ok i’m back. i also just added a new poem as well.