Can you believe this? Time just flies! Today marks 9 month since I am a father. So much has changed, yet so much is still the same. Once again I feel confused with time.
It’s also interesting to note that Maxim has lived longer on the outside, than he did inside. No, I’m not talking about our walks in the park. I am talking about him being inside his mother.
Album location: /photos/2005/2005-11-23_POTD/
Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user tvset on 2005-11-22
Once in a while I come across someone who says that blogging (or any other form of diary) is useless to him/her because of his/hers good memory. This argument sounds somewhat funny to me. You see, I thought that my memory was good too. I could remember all important things in my life and trace them back to, well, as far as I could remember.
That was before I started to blog. Now I have close to 3,000 posts that constantly remind me how bad my memory is and how easy it is to forget those little precious moments in life.
I still try to remember as much as I can. But I don’t rely on my memory as much as I used to, because it was proven to be rather faulty. Instead I blog about things that are important to me, or things that can remind me of important things that I want to remember. So far it works very good.
Also, since I mentioned it – indirect blogging works for me very well too. There are some things that I don’t want the public to know, but that I don’t want to forget either. I tried using private posts for these, but it just wasn’t fun. So, instead, I switched to indirect blogging. That is I write about private and secret things in public, but I do so in such a way that only I can figure out the second meaning. (Hint: if you come across a post that makes no sense at all, maybe it’s just one of those indirect posts that I wrote for myself.)
Whenever I was linking to my own site, I’ve been using relative URLs. Relative URLs are shorter and they don’t need to be changed when site moves to a new domain. But, it seems, there are numerous problems with RSS feeds and software that aggregates them. The main issue is that most RSS aggregators are rather stupid and don’t know how to convert relative URLs in RSS feed items to absolute ones. This causes far too many people to swear far too much. So I decided to switch to absolute (full) URLs from now on.
Changes of my domain changing are too slim too.
I just got an update from B&H that they shipped my order yesterday. This must be one of the shortest periods between ordering and shipping out that I’ve seen (excluding electronic products, which are mostly immediate). My chances of getting the present in time for Christmas (or even a bit earlier) increased a great deal…