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My plan was to toil in relative obscurity here, and for the most part that has really worked out for me. I know some of my friends here read this page. And I think maybe my Mom and Sister do sometimes too. Otherwise things are pretty quiet around here visitor wise.

But then a few weeks ago someone linked to me from their page. It didn't produce a tidal wave of hits, but I have a feeling the steady trickle coming my way is of the highest quality. Too high most likely. And there's the problem. While I couldn't be more pleased with the link, I can't help wondering what caught his attention. He sure isn't picking up any programming tips. I keep reminding myself that his sidebar links aren't really an endorsement, but just a list of recently visited sites. I figured I'd be rotated out of the lineup in a hurry. But every day when I click over to read his previous nights entry I see my link is still there. This makes me feel very good, but also adds a little pressure. "You mean people I don't know are reading this?" I think it's one of the more interesting things about the whole weblog world that I actually care about this. It's somehow more important because I don't know him. Too bad he's not in NYC or I'd offer to get him a table at the restaurant.

I wasn't even going to mention this at all. But then today I noticed another person I've come to respect through reading his page has also added my link. Seriously? Wow. I'll have to start dropping some Shulgin references or something. Again, not a deluge of traffic, but I don't care about that. It's the quality I'm after. So if you're coming here through either of those fine pages, welcome, have a look around, but don't hold it against them.

How long does 15 minutes last on a 400 mhz G3?
- jim 12-20-2001 8:54 pm [link] [9 comments]

I haven't had as much time lately for posting here. Things are very busy on the home front plus my recent venture into OS X fanaticism is taking a lot of my time. I think I will be swallowed by the project builder monster if I'm not careful. It's much to Apple's credit that I would find myself with the courage to even open up such a program. But this introduction to Applescript on OSX was just too tempting. "You mean I can make cocoa programs with Applescript?" That's something even a not so sophisticated PHP scripting philosophy major can probably deal with.
- jim 12-20-2001 3:51 pm [link] [add a comment]

Doc Searls: "Hotel California Lists, or HCLs, are my new label for email lists you can check out of, but never leave."
- jim 12-20-2001 3:19 pm [link] [add a comment]

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