I AM AN IDIOT
I have been using the Blogging tool to post away from time to time, never looking to see if it was hitting the site. It wasn't. I had to go back and reset some of the settings that I had with the new host that I am using. A couple of quick searches in the knowledge base and BAM! I was back in business.

Little blogging over the next week. I am flying to beautiful South Carolina this week and will be in meetings from morning til night. Since I am at the home office it will be a high intensity trip. Like the Carolina's, hope they offer me a cushy job there in cube land.

Spymac :: News New web host that is giving away a lot of web space (100mb + 250 just for pictures) and 1 gig of e-mail. How do they do this for free?

What a weekend!!! So much to share. First, I have a beta gMail account and it is really cool. This is now my primary e-mail account for non-work related stuff. Hotmail just kept maxing out and the gMail account has a gig of space. Too cool.

Had a great day with the body of Christ on Saturday as we shared with about 20 people from the church where we used to attend and then a great time with one of the families on Father's Day. Saturday my youngest took 8 stitches in the skull due to a mishap on the playground. The shots to numb the area was worse than anything.

Sunday gave me a terrific chance to play with a new camera. I shot a roll of Tri-X (B&W) on a Mamiya m645 medium format camera. I am excited to see the outcome of the roll. I think that the cost of the medium format camera set-up is probably reasonable if I really like the output, but as anyone who knows me knows - I love digital! The camera that I have been looking at has just come down about $300 so I am hoping that a couple of deals that I am trying to work on might pay off so that I can get it before fall.

For Father's Day I got myself "The Magnificent Seven" on DVD. I think that the best part of the DVD was the "making of" part. The movie is based on a Japanese movie "The Seven Samari". I now want to see that one really bad but think that I will have to buy it as it would notbe in wide release.

Time to hit the road. This week will take me to 4 different states, 3 if I work it out right.

Gmail - Inbox I finally got my gMail account!!! I have been wanting one of these since I first heard about it. I will bet that 50% of the Hotmail and Yahoo! people will move to Google's gMail as soon as it goes into public distribution. This is a great program!

My Voice, Quiet Though It Is
Time for a little pontificating on the value of the blog. I spent a lot of time just surfing tonight and looking at a lot of blogs. Wow. There are some seriously messed up people out there. I think that it is good to use a blog to express an opinion, even share what is going on in your life, but when you share your heart I think that can be so dangerous. I read a blog some time ago from a kid in the church where we used to attend. My first thought was that he needed counseling. But what I realized was that he was just being open and honest with how he felt. His main grip was the small town where he lived. I suppose that there is nothing really wrong with that. But, he cut down the town and a lot of the people in it, and the ways that it worked. It was kind of sad. He spoke like a prisoner.

This causes me to think of the real value of the net. Information. It is the currency of the net. Google is poised to receive 3 billion dollars in the IPO and Fool speculates that they have a potential market cap of 30 billion. That is some serious cash! They are rumored to be seriously looking at buying some interesting firms such as Monster.com and others. So what does this have to do with my evening ramble? Information. With a click on Google we are spinning around the globe gathering answers to questions that we have. It boggles the mind.

I think that is what is driving my thoughts on TheDigitalLife. What value do I hope to bring to the world. I know, it is just a matter of getting all of those pieces together. Soon. I think that I have developed a pretty healthy web strategy. I have some interesting revenue streams which should eventually generate some good cash flows. It will likely never be a full time venture, don't really want it to. But it will be something that will pay for the site and some more tools in my hobbies. This is going to be a fun ride!

It's a digital day here at Big Byte Office. Listening to tunes digitally, reading the news over the net. Communicating through various digital means. Life is good.

It is Finished.
I just have to share how cool that the world can be. Last night I am surfing and decide not to prolong my move to the new server. I hit a few searches and find one that looks like it will do most of what I want, and for the price that I require - free. I type in a few commands and viola! it is done. Oops, didn't move my files from Tripod over first. Oops, new laptop (week old) doesn't have FTP. Oops, don't have anything to generate decent HTML. So, you get a pretty boring opening page for a bit while I start putting the pieces together. Suppose that this is a good time to brush up on some of those HTML skills anyway. Going to start putting together the commercial version of the site in beta while I get the rest of the pieces together. This should be a fun ride!

This was movie weekend for the family. Saw The Day After Tomorrow at the local cineplex and watched 4 movies at home on my beautiful 80 inch projection system with surround sound. Awesome experience, even if I do have to tear apart nearly every sound system that I own to make this work. The kids loved it. We did all three Lord of the Rings movies (something like 11 hours total) and then watched Paycheck with Ben Afleck (he stars in it, he wasn't over at my house to watch it). Lots of fun.