Thoughts in a Pensieve

So I have been posting a lot to this here blog thingy. I think that I will probably post twice a day for a while. It's like a friend of mine said a week ago this blogging thing is like therapy. I have a lot on my mind, and this might help me clear some of it out. Kinda like taking your thoughts out of your brain into a pensieve like in Harry Potter and the goblet of Fire. (Coming Soon to a theater near you if you haven't read the books).

Speaking of which, (or witch) the next HP book is coming out in 21ish days. I have to figure out if I want to buy it or just check it out from the library. I am still trying to get through Fellowship of the Ring though. I still have Two Towers and Return of the king to go. I think I'll wait until the public school I work for gets it. perhaps I'll borrow it over christmas break. Unless a kid has it checked out. Stupid kids. What do they think books are there for. Oh yeah, their education. I guess I could go to the public library.

I think I'm rambling now.

But that does give me an idea for a real title to a blog. the Pensieve... Hmm. but then it will pop up on Harry Potter Fanboy searches. And I just like the books, I am not a nut case. Speaking of Nutcases. Katohaters recent post on Peter Pan is definitely an example of Internet nutcases. I'll let you decide if it's stemshul or this guy
*(Disclaimer I do not personally know stemshul, therefor he may or may not be nuttier than the pixy guy.)

I went to the Apple store in our home town today. It's at the Woodland shopping center. Today was the grand opening and the first 1000 people there got free T-shirts. So I thought cool, I'll go get one.

We'll I am in charge of my kiddos today, so I had to take them with me. No big deal, that's what we bought a double stroller for. Katelyn was a good little girl singing her own made up songs, and Eric just sat in the seat staring at some bugs hanging above his head. We got there and there was already a line of about 250-300 people at 9:15. The store opened at 10:00, so we got in line.

When we finally got into the store, it was about 10:20. I was only expecting to get one shirt, since I was the only adult, but they gave one to Katelyn and Eric too. Eric is chunky, but he's still going to swim in his shirt.

So, I have pictures figured out. now some of the stuff I need to nail down is are below

-A real Title
-A real user name
-Establish whether I really do like Blogger, or if I should look into another spot for hosting my Blog.


I am the Network Administrator of a public school, so, I could always host my own... but then there are liabilities and restraint that I will have to maintain. I have thought of purchasing a domain name for my family. we could have hoorns.us for 69.50 for 10 years... or we could have hoorns.org for 79.50 (+2.50 ICANN Fees)

hmm. So I would have a domain name, but I still wouldn't have a server. I think I will have to look into that a bit too. I wonder if SBC would allow me to run a server out of my house using my DSL connection. Doubt it. Perhaps I'll sublet a T1 on WiFi for my condominium association that I just moved in to.

Doubt that will happen either.

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So this is interesting. I have a program called 1001 that uploads pictures to Flickr. I can easily upload any items that are in my iPhoto Library then I can browse my flickr uploads click "Blog this" and it opens up a new blog entry in Ecto. There are a few formatting glitches as you can see above. I left them this time, but the first post I deleted them. Higlighting a little bit of text isn't that big of a deal to me, when editing the rest is so danged easy. Seriously. Adding links is even integrated with the system's clipboard. So then I simply click publish, and you are seeing my results. Not too shabby I'd say.

Now I just got to figure out if I want to spend $17.95 for it... Well I guess I get 20 days to figure that out.

Did this work. It looks like a little extra formatting is thrown in here.

So I found a program called Ecto. I think this will be what I use for editing a Blog.

Now, I have to think of a real title for my Blog and start from scratch. This one will be here for a while, as I nail down the rest of my learning curve.

Next up, pictures. hmm. flickr or photobucket...

Testing out a new Blogging client.


So I figure if I can type in my blog and have some nice interface features. then I don't have to muck around with hand coding links and colors. I am testing MarsEdit right now. Not sure if I like it though. Set up seemed really easy. It asked for the title of my blog, and it's URL. it configured everydthing else on it's own... I think. If this is on my blog then it did what I thought it would do.

I was reading a friend's Blog, and he has some comments about this. I was originally going to just post this as a comment to his site, but then I figured I should try to get this Blog thing going, if I am going to do it.

Anyway, in terms of the Bush SS reform... I think efforts would be better served if the were pushing education funding reform. Let's get better schools and teach the young generation of America how to invest their money that ISN'T going into Social Security. Then if the SS goes to pot... who cares, you got a million dollars in mutual funds by the time you hit 45 at least... If you started investing while in high school that is.

The problem is that everyone wants the Government to give them handouts, but don't have the guts or brains to just go out and work for themselves, give a little to charity, pay your bills, boost economy by spending a little, and invest the rest.

Most people do this with fake money instead of what they earn. Credit cards are not your money, they are some banks money that you are renting. Why do so many people rent money?

Wow... I actually blogged!

And for that matter, where's my second post too?

So, I am looking in to writing a blog. I am wondering how the email
post works. Just checking it out.

Obligatory W00t!