Superfluous Life

Midweek Recap

This week has seen the death of Netscape, the birth of the Mozilla Foundation, and finally, another post to this blog. From where I sit, these are all monumental occasions.

For anyone who happens across this site, please note that I am not modifying the template/layout/design on purpose -- my reasons for beta testing TypePad center around my interest in recommending the service to friends and family members who want their own web site, but don't have the knowledge to setup and install MovableType, and who don't want to pay someone else to do it for them (I would normally take on this sort of responsibility myself, but there are only so many hours in the day).

Nothing I do during this beta period will be anything more than what I can imagine a non-web person would do, which means no mucking about with the CSS, no late-night Photoshop inspiration, and only the most basic tags used to markup the contents of any posts. To those of you who enjoy Superfluous Banter, this might be a terrible disappointment. My apologies.

I will say this: I am enjoying the hell out of Moblogging -- I don't think I'll post to this site at all from now on except via email, and I can't wait for that feature to come to MovableType or MovableType Pro.

Moblogging Virgin

Hello, my name is Dan, and... I'm a Moblogging Virgin. I've never done anything like this before -- really!

It means a lot to me that you would all visit and support this new stage in my life; you understand how scary this can be, and how big a step this is towards attaining my goal of blogging nirvana.

Inaugural Address

In an attempt to post something, anything, I thought I'd list a few of my recent online haunts for your linking pleasure:

• smithpaul.com - Paul Michael Smith, UK


• diveintoaccessibility.org - Web Accessibility How-To

And then, of course, a little personal drivel: This weekend has been spent in front of the computer, coding/debugging/creating content for my quartet's web site (not finished yet either), making learning "tapes" (MP3's really) for my chorus (4-part a cappella harmony is great, but it's still work when you have to turn out a 4-part learning recording for a new song, which happens frequently), and catching up on show contracts for the quartet (I'm only a few weeks behind...).

Unfortunately, I hardly spent any time with Lauren, which, frankly, sucks since she's leaving to finish her last two years of college in about 5 weeks. I also missed a coaching session with Heatwave, a terrific women's quartet (State champions two years running) -- this would have been my second session with them, and it was gearing up to be the highlight of my weekend, but I wrote the wrong time in my calendar. I get a phone message to the tune of "Hi, Dan? Where are you?" at about 12:30pm for what was supposed to be a 12pm-1pm session, only I had written 2pm in my schedule. Shit.

Things could, of course, be worse, but when each week is spent struggling to get new clients and keep existing ones happy, all for less money than I (we) deserve, having a shitty weekend just doesn't cut the mustard.