6 posts from 2007

Like dolphins thanking the humans for their daily meals, I'd like to thank VOX for a great year of blogging in style. There has never been a more design and network centered blogging service nor has their been such a feature rich product that people can enjoy through and through. As I've stated before, there are some very appealing things about self-hosting via WordPress. So today, I bid VOX a fond farewell. I'll keep this up but don't expect much to be posted here. 

I'm contemplating leaving Vox, or at least drastically diminishing the role it plays in my online world (even though I use it sparingly already). There are several things about Vox that have begun to jump out at me recently that I make a Wordpress blog seem very preferable. For one, I can run ads. Even if they only bring in a few dollars a month, it's better than nothing. Also, I can be taken more seriously content wise with my own blog. Vox is a much more personal blog. I'm not sure if I always want my blog to remain that way entirely. Given the incredible functionality of Vox, I'm starting to notice how difficult and bogged down the interface is. It's very slow on my system. I just think something simpler and cleaner is called for too. I'm not sure what to do. Should I dump Vox completely, should I keep everything here or should I split the blog and blog personal life here and professional content on my own?

Not much blogging lately. Since finals have ended, I've gone through a lot. My grandma has died. I've launched a new show for MacApper.com (along with the summer season of TechNight). I attended a summer journalism workshop at the University of Georgia. I turned down an opportunity to sing in Nova-Scotia. Yeah...and it's not even July yet. Hopefully, I'll have more time to blog now so look for more from me soon.

So I'm rushing to finish FireRed so I can start Pokemon Diamond before the school year ends; I search around for an online Pokedex worth using, and I find zero! Some are weakly composed, others are populated well but designed horribly, and others are just plain nightmares. In desperation, I'm going to start work on putting together a comprehensive and well designed Pokemon encyclopedia (think Pokedex 2.0). It shouldn't be too hard considering it's a pretty static database and I've already drawn up a few design plans. If you can code, I can't pay you since this is a pet project, but anyone is free to help on this.

I had an idea today during a school presentation. Let's see where it goes.