So in my quest to learn more about web hosting I read a few guides.  Most of them seem like they were written at the dawn of the internet. One even mentioned Geocities as a "good option".  

In order to have a personal website, you need web site hosting.  I don't feel like dedicating my Macbook (which is away getting its trackpad fixed) to hosting my website so I need to chose one.

Take a moment and think. If you could have anything, right now, what would it be? Anything. What is your strongest desire? What motivates you? To check if the Thing you just thought of, really is what you want most, imagine how you would feel after you got it. You want to be President of a small Caribbean nation? Boom, wake up and smell the salty sea air Presidenté. How do you feel? If you don’t feel at peace, you need to go a step deeper. What motivates what you thought of? If you wanted a million dollars but imagining that doesn’t give you peace, maybe what you want is security. Now think, after making sure that really is what you want, what did you do this week to take a step in the direction of that Thing. If you really do want a million dollars in the bank, what did you do to increase your balance or improve your cash flow? If the Thing you want most is a happy family, what did you do to make your family happy? Our time is one of the only level playing fields. No one can’t get any more time. Too often we spend our time on things that don’t satisfy us because they are not THE Thing. I can hear you saying, “But Josh, what is the Thing you want most? And what did you do to get it?”

For me, to know that I am living my life the right way, taking advantage of all the opportunities and challenges that come my way, is the most important Thing. I think about where I am spending my time often. I am religious and I believe that if I am doing what God wants me to do, that is the best way I can spend my time. If you don’t believe in a higher power, that’s ok. The things that God wants me to do are things that make us and everyone around us happy. Be nice to people. Serve them. Learn more. Organize. Create. Love everyone. Take time to think and ponder. So how am I doing reaching that goal? I am far from perfect. I don’t need to know the stages of the Russian monarchy and revolution but wikipedia just sucks you in.

Reviewing my week, I am happy that I did take steps towards reaching my goal. I know that in order to really accomplish what I could in life, I require more skills. Coding skills, design skills, bow staff skills. 🙂 By doing something everyday to learn more of these skills, I am progressing towards my goal. If you are religious, I think that by honing our skills we become more useful in Gods Kingdom. If you are not religious, learning these skills takes me one step closer towards a Caribbean palace and new country on the world map. Booya. What is your Thing and what did you do this week to get it? Feel free to comment or send me an email. I really do want to know.

(Editors note – I am writing some of these posts on my phone, so if you see errrrors, alert me and I will fix them. Your future president or Russian monarch thanks you. 🙂

Writing this on a bus coming back from the Mariners game. It was a gorgeous day in Seattle, and the Mariners won. Broke a 7 game losing streak. I just started this week so there is not much to review. I committed to posting every day for a year. Haven’t missed a day yet. Decided I wanted to hand code my own personal website. Gave myself 2 weeks to do it. Looked into jQuery and found that while not magical it does help simplify making nice web pages. And there you have it. Thanks for following along. I’ve already had people give me hints and advice and encouragement. Thank you and here’s to a great next week.

(Go Seattle)

#LetsDoThis

When you look at just about any web page these days, you see lots of $ symbols.  This means the web page is using jQuery.  What is jQuery? 

Everyone needs a sweet personal website.  I have a blog right now, but I just use Posterous.  I want to hand craft my own html and javascript to make it my own creation.  Why? Because I need to know how to do it.  I need to know how it works.  I am sick of templates and "this is great but…" and not being able to fix it. 

Post #1

Right here, right now, I am publicly committing to writing a blog post about something I learned everyday. For a year. Why? I am sick and tired of having ideas and not being able to make them become real. I will learn something new everyday. Let me know of your following along or you learned something as well. Posts will mostly be about technology and behavior. Sunday’s will be something inspirational or spiritual. If you don’t believe in a higher power, feel free to skip Sundays. I will post some goals that I want to accomplish over the course of this year tomorrow. Let’s do this.

I just bought 8 gb of Macbook memory from Amazon. Cost is $45. Is it worth it?

I just bought 8 gb of Macbook memory from Amazon. Cost is $45. Is it worth it?

 

 

It appears Draw Something knows about the error. But I wanted to know why.  I posted about the error and a few of my friends responded they had the same problem. I looked at the amount of friends they had and it is over a thousand in each case.  Can Draw Something just not handle a long list of fb friends?