Head Tale

Ignore that last
post.  I had to put a link to Technorati to “claim” my blog. 
Why'd I do that?  I got my first comments today from my old
(former, dammit!) co-worker who was searching Technorati to see who linked to her and my first entry in this blog came up. 

Obviously, I have a lot to learn about the Internets because I didn't
think my site was public yet.  But Technorati had started
archiving me already.  (I thought she'd found me because I'd
uploaded my latest bookmarks file and that had links to my blog on it.) 

(On a tangent, an elementary school teacher friend of mine was giving her class with a fill-in the blank vocabulary test.
She meant to write:
My first public appearance would be my ____ (debut)
She instead wrote:
My first pubic appearance would be my _____
and one child was sharp enough to write “last?” Hilarious.)

Anyhow, nice to have some
comments.  I think the default is that you have to sign-up for an
account to post them so thanks to Jill for going to the effort. 
I'm debating taking off the account requirement but have fears of
comment-spam overload.  Maybe I'll try it for a day or two and
see?  My list of things to try with this blog keeps growing –
everytime I knock one off the list, two jump back on it. 

What else?  I don't know why I have the compulsion to write this
but I just wanted to say that keeping a notepad and pen in my pocket
everywhere I go is one of the greatest decisions I've made in my
life.  I love being able to whip it out (er, the notepad) to
record ideas, book titles, upcoming events, scribble notes for others
and so on.  Good stuff.  I seriously think everyone should do
it so I just thought I'd share.

Gotta go buff up my web page for tomorrow.  I feel a little guilty
– I've done all that was required for the assignment but not a lot more
whereas a lot of my classmates (most of whom have a lot less web design
experience) have done some informative, beautiful, unique sites. 

Which leads me to Classmate of the Day,
an imaginary honour which today goes to Derek Bates (the third link above)
who gave me a wicked 15-minute tutorial on stats that helped me
understand the worksheet due on Friday (as opposed to the other day
when it might as well have been written in Martian.)  Derek has
earned himself some free beer (or libations of his choice) on Friday.