Two months later

Wow, I thought maybe waiting for something good to say would be a better idea than posting useless shit, but I didn’t think it would be two months and I still wouldn’t have anything to say…

I checked out Examiner.com.  It seemed like a good idea: blog about something I know something about (bars and nightlife in Omaha) and make money off the ad revenue.  I figured that doing the minimum 4 posts or so a week would be easy enough, and that it wouldn’t take up much time.  I might even see some cash from it!  I can’t say that I really gave it an honest try.  I only posted 2 articles as the Omaha Nightlife Examiner and during that time, I wasn’t yet “activated” so I wasn’t getting my updates shared and I got now traffic because I wasn’t findable by just browsing the site.  I think in and of itself, its not a bad idea for a site.  However, no one has heard of the Examiner and no one wants to read some shitty blogs that contain mostly links to other, more easily findable information on the web, or to other Examiner blogs.  I made about 4 cents and quickly discovered that my time, despite how little the site took to maintain, was worth more as free time than what I could make off the site.

I found a new Barber.  His name is Ron Moderow and his shop is called Viking Barber.  It is definitely old school and I heartily reccomend it.  Call 572-0525 because his appointment book is seriously full.  I went Tuesday and was turned away because he had appointments every 15 minutes from 8am to 5pm.  No lunch!  I got in Wednesday (due to a cancellation) and got a good cut for $12.  At the end he told me, “With hair this good, you better watch out.  Your wife is going to jump you bones when she sees it.”  I plan on being a regular.

Lastly, I am hoping to update a little more regularly.  Nat has been doing a better job than I over at her site.  I took out the weekly Twitter updates because that shit was annoying.  Mostly because that was the only content on the site for a while…  I also added a widget for my google reader shared items.  I recommend subscribing to that feed and promise the stuff I share is A+ awesome.  I think thats all for now.  Going to be a busy summer but way more fun than last year with me not being in class.

Going Mobile

So now that I am blogging again, thinking back to the old blog, I spent a significant amount of my website time tweaking the look and coming up with new designs occasionally.  This time around, I’m spending nearly 0% of my time on design, instead utilizing the canned themes that come with wordpress.  Probably the main reason why I decidedto go this route is due to how most people read blogs.

I don’t have any statistics, but I can tell you personally, that I read absolutely none of blogs I read regularly on their website.  Google reader is just way too handy.  So I feel like spending a lot of time on design is fun and visually satisfying, but I think a lot of people never see it.

When I starting picking through the themes for this blog, I had very few requirements: simple, mostly white, as few columns as possible, degrades to a mobile browser nicely.  The last part was the trickiest for me.  I like to use a lot of images in web design, but they don’t always play nice on the screen of some random non-smart phone.  It also makes your site slightly less accessible.

This theme was ok for what I wanted, but I wasn’t sure about the whole mobile browser part.  Well, I’m proud to say that I now have Wordpress Mobile Edition running, which serves a mobile friendly theme for this site when you visit on a mobile device.  It also has a touch version which works awesome on my iPhone.

Add to that the release of Wordpress for iPhone and you got yourself a pretty damn mobile-friendly site.  Now while I can update the site from my phone now, I doubt I’ll be pecking out too many essays on the iPhone’s keyboard.  I will continue to use twitter for quick, up to the minute type updates, but if we are on vacation or somewhere without our trusty iMac or MacBook, than you can be sure that we will be blogging from our phones instead.

Hello world!

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