Posts to the future...

This may get a little weird...

I try to make certain posts, such as pictures of my cat and ones about allusions, on certain days of the week. (Wednesday and Friday respectively) I've discovered that I can type a post in advance in blogger, then have it schedule the post. It's handy in that I've got some of the ones I want to post later already typed when I have had the leisure to do it. Then they show up later, when I want them to.

Then I keep wondering, morbid though it might be, "What if I ended up hospitalized--or worse--and the posts kept coming on here anyway?" I just wonder what people would think. I suspect at best, they would be confused. So for the record, sometimes I type posts long before they are scheduled to be posted.

I'm thinking maybe I should make some post about something that will happen in the future, and years later, it will show up with my thoughts from right now. Then again, I'm neither a prophet, nor the son of a prophet...

I just felt the need to warn you in the (hopefully) unlikely event of posthumous blog posts showing up on here.

Andy Roddick = Traffic

A couple of years ago at a tennis tournament in Memphis, Carolina happened to have her camera out at the right time, making a video clip at the right time, and she captured Andy Roddick pitching a temper tantrum and breaking his racket.

I put the video up on Youtube, and as of right now, it has about 85,000 hits. I'm rather proud that my blog's traffic has surpassed 20,000 hits (I'm humbled that so many people have taken an interest in what I have to say about anything). But by far, the most publicized thing that I'm personally connected to has been this Andy Roddick video.

If you look at the statistics, it's been used and linked to by some European sports website. Pretty cool!

Here's the link to my video. I guess Carolina probably deserves most of the credit, as she is the one that captured this.

.Mac = ?

Allrighty. I just got a new iMac at home, and am wanting to synchronize the information from my office Mac and my home Mac. So Mac offers these .Mac accounts, for which I signed up with a free 60-day trial.

I was excited about trying this, because I know it can provide an easy way to synchronize stuff, as well as a good way to publish websites. I am thinking of taking my youth group blog and making it into a full web page, which I think would be a good move. Then again, I've so far been unimpressed with iWeb. It is beautiful, as far as the templates are concerned, but I prefer the blogging features available to me on Blogger. With iWeb, you have the option of adding only 1 picture per post, and It's fairly rigid in your options on layout. So part of me is pretty uninclined to go with it, because I can do more with Blogger.

I have really grown to love Macs over the last year, and I don't think I'll ever buy another PC unless some drastic things happen (and they could). It's simple to use. It never crashes. The programs it comes with are fantastic, and they communicate well with each other. Even the PC programs like MS Office on the Mac are better.

But a lot of what .Mac is offering, I can already do using Google applications. I e-mail important documents to myself. I already have all my contacts on Gmail, and don't really have a need to put them all into my local hard drive, or onto an iDisk for that matter. I also use Google calendar, which works just fine. I publish photos of events on Picasa Web, which works every bit as well as the Mac galleries.

I'm trying to justify the expense of .Mac for the very few extra tools it would offer me.

Anyone know of some things I'm not seeing here?

I Should So Be Getting Paid For This

I've been an avid blogger for some time now. I've had many friends who have started blogging, then fizzled out, then started, then fizzled, etc. I've remained pretty constant on here. I probably enjoy hearing myself talk too much.

At any rate, I was logging onto Harding's Pipeline to see what's happening in my online course for this semester, and--lo and behold--Harding is paying students to blog about Harding! I hope they give Mark Elrod and David Underwood pay increases, as I know of no one who blogs more about Harding than they do. I wish they would have started this a long time ago. I could use the tuition discount, and I do this anyway.