7.27.2002

Well, it's up. The new design, the new URL is resolved to the IP address, and I'm just shaking out little bugs here and there, with the help of all my fellow Fairies. I like the FreeFind search engine, but what I never counted on when I first signed up is that I would easily have so many pages that the free service could not index them all. And since I have no revenue yet, I can't see paying for a search function until I do... I wonder if Google will index my site? I asked months ago, and so far, only two of my pages seem to appear regularly in searches. If they would, then I could use that - and they don't seem to have any kind of limit on external site search size. Maybe it's because my meta tags were too big. I did fix them later, but maybe I don't really need to have them there at all... I kind of hate fooling with them, actually. I still have to add banner ads and sign up for the link exchange program. Not that I'm expecting a lot of ad revenue or anything, but I'd like enough to defray the cost of webhosting. Not that it costs me a lot - all of us Fairies have kind of been doing this for the experience, anyway, so it's paid off for us professionally not financially. And the domain registration per year is probably the cost of one dinner out. We do our own coding... We're just a teeny little Colorado non-profit; everything's donated, and we have no overhead to speak of. Or facilities, for that matter. Or even business cards... Maybe we should get business cards. Not really sure why though. But everyone else seems to have them. :)

7.26.2002

How Come Others Can Get Away With This Kind Of Thing???

No, actually I'm not talking about financial mismanagement and looting of corporate coffers. I'm talking about the interview I went to yesterday afternoon. Now, I know Unix sys admins have a less than optimal personality (I used to be married to one, so I know whereof I speak), but this was a new low. He comes into the conference room where we're all already seated, chatting amicably about web architecture. And he's got a four foot section of heavy wood doweling, with a cloth handle attached to the bottom end, held like a baseball bat over his shoulder as he enters the room. Better yet, he makes like he's swinging it at me as he meanders over to my side of the room to shake my hand and make my acquaintance! I am shocked, to say the least. I put a good face on it though, and get through the interview just fine. The economy must really be in the toilet for such shenanigans to go on without apparent concern from his colleagues. You know, if I ever tried such a thing, I'd have been toast by the end of the day...

7.23.2002