Saturday, 15 January, 2005

Giving the People what they want. I looked in on another web log the other day How to Save the World. Written by a Canadian named Dave Pollard, does a nice job on environmental concerns (lying between me and the bachelors degree I don't have is a economics class on externalities, I actually registered for it a few semesters ago but never made it out of the wait list). His site is maintained on a much higher plane of existence than Atomized here. He is a writer by profession, and he's trying to save the world. In my defense I want to point out my job - affixing barcodes to library books - that's my knowledge base (you stick 'em on up at the top). This takes me away for several hours nearly every day. It does better work as curse, than as provider of living wage. Something Nancy (Micaela) once said to me - She had been thinking. She said: "When I was a little girl I went to my older sister and told her 'when I grow up I want to save the world', My sister looked at me blankly, and answered 'save the world, from what'?" That's my circumscribed ambition, simply to figure out what. Saving the world, when I looked in on it, had a post on web log metrics and reader's interests which was triggering off the recently released Pew Trust survey on Blogosphere (Pew internet report). He had a table up, which looked at A list web loggers, B list and 'up and coming' web logists by the daily hits each catagory might expect. At 4 to 6 hits per day my catagory: also ran. The press is only obligated to report on win, place and show. No one cares about the ponies who are just out for a Sunday stroll. I resolve this year; then, to give the people what they want. Which I will determine first by the handy list of what people want Dave Pollard provides on a sidebar, and by logical deduction, and by my referer logs. People want: pictures of Vigi's. The North American Rockwell RA5c Vigilante . Here are two from my old outfit RVAH 7 (note the logo), over Arizona. The tail markings: NE, were for the USS Ranger. LCDR Habel would be flying the third plane which took the picture. The RAN ran, the camera's they sat by that tiny square window behind the pilot . a Solution to the solitare marble game. I don't have one, but here's an ascii diagram. Fig.1 o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o x o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o the idea is that you move by jumping one marble (represented by o) over another , there has to be a empty space (represented by x)on the other side you repeat this until all the marbles are gone except one and the last move leaves this in the center ie the solution is the logical opposite of the start Philippino recipes. I wonder if they weren't looking recipes for philipics rather? But who am I to second guess google? Maybe I'll ask my friend Nina. I'll see what I can come up with. stories from Personal experience. Hey! more sea stories from my Navy days, random bus train or car trips, stories other people have told me but who don't have web logs. Maybe some fiction, I've been trying to put together a story around solution 22(b) - berserkers. Possibly there are people out there who know what that means. Poems. Sure why not (I) fell through small break-foot ice down to stillsoft earthmud below, which told its no word world roundness. What could be simpler? Somehow, more charts and diagrams. If I have too I will simply start writing the drafts of my posts in a spreadsheet and saving them down as bar charts. Note to self: Source Forge's Freemind requires java 1.4.0. Apple OS X.i.iii does not have this, dang! Someone once said to Me "Writing doesn't really capture the way you think -- and frankly, speaking doesn't either". That's ok, I can always draw you a picture. 1:22:30 PM    comment [];trackback [];

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