Another Opinion Among Many

This is why I don’t talk about my workplace.  It is also why I don’t use my work email for anything except work or communicating with my wife when at work (and only if necessary).

I don’t know why people don’t believe me when I say that your online presence could determine whether or not you get a job or keep it.

I have added the Subscribe2 plugin to my site as a measure to ensure that anyone who really wants to try and keep up with my fast paced writing will be able to do so.  After reading RT Cunningham’s convincing article on Untwisted Vortex, I decided that this was a good idea.  See the link to the right? Plop your email address in there and you should get an email notification every time I post something new.  If I published more often, I’d provide a digest.  But, since its rare for me to post more than once a day, I’ll send every time that something new comes up.  AFAIK, this doesn’t work for comments, though.

My original solution was to follow Feedburner’s suggestion of providing email subscriptions their way.  I tried desperately to get Feedburner to work with my site, but they just don’t want to wait for my feed.  For some reason, I feed my posts in a manner that is just a tad too slow for Feedburner’s impatient timeout and there doesn’t seem to be any trick that works to get Feedburner to accept my post feed.  The comments feed shows up in a split second, though.  The Feedburner help documentation had suggested that I could use SendMeRSS to send the posts via email and, after creating their widget, I was supposedly in business.

I got to thinking that there must be a way that I can do this myself, rather than rely on yet another external service to do my work for me.  I know that the philosophy is to delegate your work, but this is different.  This is why I decided to continue feeding through my own link (http://coreythompson.com/feed/ and http://coreythompson.com/comments/feed/).  The RSS feed links are still embedded in the sidebar as well.  I’ve moved them all to the top so that they’re easier to see quickly.

Consider this post the first test of the new way (I get an email every time, as my email address is in the TO: field and everyone else will be in the BCC:, which means no email marketing lists will be collected by anyone this way).  As usual, I will use your email address only for its intended purpose and never give it out.

Boy, I don’t know how Kindergarten teachers keep from getting sick more often.  I know that both of our kids were sick for the whole year in their first grade in school.  First Caleb and now Abby is bringing home whatever comes around.  It sucks, as I seem to catch it from them.  Even Angela has gotten sick a few times this year and she seems to always be immune.

So, I’ve been quite ill over the past few days.  I pushed on and went to work anyways, instead of spending a few days in bed.  Once in a while a spark of an idea crosses my mind, but I’ve not the drive to expand on it with such a foggy head.  Its almost embarrassing, really.  There are those who have it so much worse off and they seem to still be able to plug along and put forth their ideas.  Some are coping with serious illnesses and others are tested to their utmost emotionally and spiritually, be it because they have too much to do, are far too much in debt, or have a loved one (perhaps the love of their life) on death’s door.

And, here I am, writing something lacking in any profound importance.  How about that.  I still hope that next year will be better, though.  Who wants their family to have a cold for 1/2 the year? Count me out of that group.

back to the haze…

Did somebody screw up big time here?

Its not the UN, but its a start:

I noticed a post in my feed reader about the Google Doodle competition and checked it out.  There are some talented artists in US schools.  Check out their artwork (and see the winner’s on May 22 when you search on Google)

I was watching beatbox videos on YouTube and came across this funny edited one of George Bush.  Its good clean fun.