Okay, so, I announce the new blog, I post once or twice, and then nothing happens. Or so it seems... okay, no nothing has happened. Three weeks ago, the wife and I decided I should give freelance web designing a go, since nobody seemed to want to give me a job. I've spent those three weeks soliciting business, setting up domain names and a web site, and moving all my old sites to a new (fancy Solaris) web server at my host (TextDrive, nee Joyent).

This site now lives on those new servers, and I have managed to import all the old posts from the latest version of the blog (I think there were ten or so) and the posts from the old version of this blog (like a hundred and thirty seven or something). So you should feel free to do some browsing. I even managed to keep the comments.

And the categories. Wow, those are a mess.

In any case. Here we are, again.

Just letting you all know that I have a new personal blog, much the same as this blog, just at a new address. Thanks for caring, if you do.

dannynovo.com

Hey all. So, I've been using Gallery now for a couple of years. And with the new version 2, it has improved greatly. But I am starting to chafe at how much I need to get in and under the hood to make it what I want. So. I am considering, just a bit, paying for a Flickr Pro account.

Has anyone used one? Is it the end-all, be-all of web gallery keeping? It's just $25 a year, which I can swing if I just take lunch for a week. And it does albums, and shared albums, and posts to the blog, and you can print from it, and it has privacy settings... all the things I like about Gallery.

Plus it has the cool Flickr-y things, like the slideshows (Gallery's slideshows are... well, they hardly qualify), tagging, picture marking, etc.

So. Anyone?

Danny.

Please wait while I edit a previous post for slanderous insensitivity.

But really. I posted about an experience I had today, at work. The Internet is rife with examples of people getting fired (extreme result, yes) for posting about work on their blogs. For the most part they either work(ed) for huge, monolithic, head-up-their-butt companies (see: guy who got fired by Microsoft for posting photos of their loading dock), or they totally rip on their boss and their boss' dog Fluffy.

I had an experience where someone I think is representative of much of the country made a comment I just could not believe, it was so dumb. I wrote a post that explained the circumstances, the comment, and my reaction to it.

My original post did not hide the fact that I worked, and that this experience took place at work, and while this was not within my work context, nor with the clientele I work with... well, I can see that as a representative of the place I work (you all read earlier posts in this blog, right? Is it too late to be vague now?) I should maybe just shut the hell up. After all, a potential client might see me ripping on some poor innocent I met in the company cafeteria, and decide they don't want to take the same risk, taking their business elsewhere. I can understand that this would be a bad outcome, which is why I edited the post in question to remove any trace of my work environment. I just abstracted it all to pieces. I hope it still makes sense.

And yet.

Stupid people deserve to be called on being stupid, although not in a slanderous way (unless they are our #$@!%!! President).

I'm a really nice, reasonable guy.

I spend almost half my waking hours at work, and I'm not supposed to blog about it?!!

There are probably better things to do, I just have to find them.