In digging through some old archives of my previous blog, I found this:

After the events of this week, I remember now why I was always hesitant about working for myself: stability. It started on Sunday, where the person I was rebuilding a massive website (800+ pages) for decided he “couldn’t afford it” and canceled the whole thing. All the time I spent (including 7 hours straight on Sunday…I was in the zone) went wasted. To say I was disappointed would be an understatement. Here’s a brief rundown of how it went:

Him: I can’t do the site anymore. People owe me money, I am still paying for someone to build the ecommerce store, blah blah blah. Also, your proposed setup (using a site structure) is too detailed. I’m not a “path” person.

Me: I understand. Money’s tight for everyone.

Him: I still need you to set up my Dreamweaver installation so I can edit the site myself

Me: I’ve done that already. The problem is your code has no standard structure to it. Your code needs to be set to point to the location of the image.

Him: I CAN SEE THE FILE ON MY MACHINE! WHY WON’T DREAMWEAVER WORK!!! (He’s now very upset)

Me: Because your server files are a mess. And you code looks like someone ate a website, partially digested it, then vomited the code back on to the page.

Him: I’M NOT A PATH PERSON!

Me: That may be, but servers and HTML code depend on them. I can make Dreamweaver upload the files to Burt Reynold’s personal website if I wanted to, but that won’t matter because you don’t know what the hell you’re doing. I can’t make Dreamweaver adjust to your inability to understand and use basic syntax.

And that was that.

As of this posting, there are 11 days left in the year.

A bunch of stuff happened. Most of it awesome.

But not nearly as awesome as this

Instead of railing against something I’m pissed off about, I thought I’d rather just quickly leave a description of one of my favorite local bands Nessie.

How they describe their music:

That feeling you get when, after stopping off for one cold beer after work, you suddenly realize you’re on your sixth cold beer and you haven’t eaten and it’s dark outside and the people you were going to meet out later are here because it IS later, and the band is starting to set up. That feeling you get right before you shrug, smile and order Lucky Number Seven.

Hey folks, just wanted to let you all know a few things. First off, this blog has a new co-author, one I think you’ll all enjoy. My good buddy Matt has been gracious enough to get on board, so let’s all give him a good hello. His first post is below.

Also, I’ve updated the feeds accordingly. Here’s the breakdown:

The entire blog – http://feeds.feedburner.com/RestlessLikeMe

Norcross – http://feeds.feedburner.com/RestlessLikeNorcross
Matt – http://feeds.feedburner.com/RestlessLikeMatt

I always talk about getting rid of cable. Unfortunately, I never get around to it because I have little interest in dropping off the box. And, I have a routine in the morning where I watch Morning Joe on MSNBC. It’s actually a pretty terrible habit if you think about it. But, like all reasonably obsessive compulsive people, I have a hard time breaking habits.

Anyways, I always complain about Morning Joe because the pundit banter is pretty obnoxious and I think Joe Scarborough is a tool. Here’s a guy who went to UF but roots for Bama. That’s like doing a tour of duty in Iraq and going “you know what bro, I just root for Al Queda. I like where their heads’ are at and I think they’ve got a good tradition going on.” (more…)

I admit, this blog has been somewhat quiet as of late. I’ve got a few drafts in the works, but they just aren’t quite ready for prime-time yet. Also, I’ve been gearing up for a big change that’s on the horizon (more information to come). In addition, I’ve been working behind the scenes with Jun Loayza and the Viralogy.com team on their new project: Viralogy Themes.

You can read all about it here.

(So does this mean I’m also “living the start-up life”?)

This is from one of my favorite writers, Tim Weaver, who writes at (among other places) at his blog Not So Subtle:

When you start taking care of your minority populations (France) and stop pretending to be anything more than a totalitarian dystopia (Russia) then maybe you can come down to our doorstep and tell us how to run our fucked up, egomaniacal, self-centered, self-gratifying, violent, depraved, hypocritical country. Until then, take that freshly printed newspaper, turn it sideways, and ram it right up your candy ass.

From the recent post “Really Russia? 4 Reals?”

That’s a level of anger and sarcasm I can get behind. Bravo, sir.