Entries from August 2008 ↓

Just got this message in the email.

We’ve seen your website at http://stackingtheory.com/affiliate-links/ and we love it!
We see that your traffic rank is 0
and your link popularity is 0.
Also, you have been online since <Online since>.
With that kind of traffic, we will pay you up to $4,800/month to advertise our links on your website.

I’m on the gravy-train now, people. I KNEW these blog things were a steam-train to success.

It’s been nice knowing you all….

Just a heads-up to you all that I’ve updated the feed to work through FeedBurner - expect all sorts of crazy no-change from this.

Cheers,

gizo

The super-canny among you may have noticed I have made a few small tweaks to the first post on Stacking Theory - Fanfare.

First up, I’d like to send a big thanks out to bookboy who provided help, guidance, and cold hard images for the comment bubbles. Yay!

Next, I’ve been tinkering with using Markdown for my posts (in conjunction with the super-ace MarsEdit) - I am actually quite liking the simplified approach of Markdown, I’ve also created a MarsEdit Markup command for pasting links in Markdown, and given it a keyboard shortcut. Did I mention that MarsEdit rocks?

Lastly, I’ve been tweaking the footnote thing. I’m not sure that I’ll continue to use footnotes, but it’s a worthwhile distraction from actually producing work. I’ve been looking around for the best way for me to implement footnotes, and I’ve found some javascript mojo, and some observational commentary, and have wound up back at the feet of the Great Gruber (when I say ‘at the feet of‘ I actually mean ‘stealing directly the footnote layout of‘). Although, I am intrigued by sidenotes, which remind me of my favourite part of Jer’s Novel Writer - Margin Notes. I shall need to look at them further.

And lastly - thanks to you; for reading, encouraging, and supporting me. Cheers.

No, there will be no tradition of naming every post after an Eric Matthews song (no matter how grand it is). Nor any song, for that matter.

So, with that out of the way - welcome to Stacking Theory. This will be my new bloggy home, for better or worse. Update your feed readers, your bookmarks, and your blogrolls (if you have been kind enough to link to gizoisbug already).

I’ll¹ not attempt to explain the shift away from the wordpress.com blog. Let’s just put it down to ‘tinkering’.

As a man who has lately shown signs of a terrible inability to blog, it does seem strange, but as the tall man so often says - ‘meh’.

There’s been alot going round in my greasy head lately. I’ve scribbled notes to write about all sorts of things. From giving advice to people I’ve never met and know precious little about - notably advising them regarding the purchase (or non-purchase) of an automobile - through to a meandering discourse about Working Dog’s latest foray into TV-land, The Hollowmen.

I’ve pondered the impending arrival of another mini-gizo, and also a new cousin for The Hardman.

And mostly, I’ve just been trying to keep my head above, depsite illness, winter, and work-based distemper.

Lastly, for what it’s worth, I have been enjoying the latest bunch of posts by my Mann Crush. Over at 43 Folders, Merlin has been gifting us a great set of posts about managing Time and Attention, and who has access to it. While I am certainly no convert of GTD (not necessarily for lack of want), I am witness to this strange belief in my workplace - that anyone and everyone owns our attention. I see it affecting my co-workers regularly, and I find Merlin’s staunch defense of his space intriguing, inspiring, and interesting. I’m currently trying to figure out the best way to integrate this into the ‘open door’ workplace I spend altogether too much time in.

Which reminds me - dammit I wish I didn’t have to work 5 days a week. The sick days that I’ve taken lately have been sweetened considerably by the time-spent with The Hardman and The Kym. They rock my world.

Hopefully I’ll be more regular from here on in - now that I am paying for it.

Today’s post was brought to you by a nasty headcold, a good dose of coffee, and Memminger Lager - a beer so nasty, it’s free.

1. The pattern-seekers among you may notice at this point that I have also chosen not to make the first word of every paragraph rhyme - although I did consider it.↩