I know I’ve done it before, and it’s always come back, but I think I’m going to retire this blog.  I won’t stop “blogging”, per se, but I think that while all this unrestricted free space that I have where I can scream my opinions into the void of cyberspace has given me much courage to speak my mind, it really hasn’t done much to improve the quality of my writing.  So in the same way that rappers have to come up with creative lyrics to replace the curse words in their songs so they can get air play on the radio, I’m going to re-launch a new blog-equivalent site with some new constraints.  I’ve internalized a few things I’ve learned in the past year and a half about leadership and running an organization, and I want to apply those things to my website so I can become more focused and generate content that is more valuable to myself and the people who visit this site (all 6 of you).

So TTFN, I’ll relaunch soon.

-TJ

Did a little bit of cleaning on my webserver, took out alot of subdomains and addon domains I wasn’t using.  As you can see (maybe), I moved my site from the root to the “blag” subdirectory.  I just don’t want the blog to be the first thing people hit on this site.  I think I’m going to put a welcome page to the “ockets personality” at the root, and point to both this and the other part of the site… “brain”.

I made a new subdomain, “brain.ockets.net”.  I’ve been wanting to do a wiki-like functionality, so instead of reading a chronological order of blog posts, alot of linked-up data will be posted to brain, which more echoes the way my scattered brain acts and stores/retrieves data.

Anyway, that’s it for now.

-TJ

Hey, I’m testing a new glossary plugin. I just added the word “BOT” and it should take you to the definition. Let’s see if it works…

So check this out.

Last maybe 2 weeks this site was offline because I was thinking I needed to do something different besides blog. So I just disabled my blog for a bit while I put up my little growing plant picture to represent something else was being built there.

Then I just let it stay empty for a few days.

I just now reinstated my blog… I’m really kinda lazy to build something totally unique here, so once again we’re back. Or I’m back, rather.

While messing around with my site, I figured I should put in a wiki. Why? Just because. It’s up but I’m not giving the address out just yet, I want to figure out how to restrict access to it.

Now that I’m writing this, I really have to talk about some things. Mainly, what kind of content you should expect to see here, here on out, and my thoughts and concerns about it.

First, the content. I want to post more objectionable content on this site. I never said I was writing this to be SFW per se, or that I write this expecting my family members to somehow stumble upon it. I’m getting older, though, and as easy as it was for me to separate my school life from my family life back when I was a teenager in high school, I really have to kick that habit and reconcile the different lives I’m leading… this will just make me saner as a person so I don’t have to think about who I told what and what not. I’m a man now, and I say this to myself because I think it’s high time I started taking accountability for my choices, and if I’m going to run a blog about my life, it better be about all my life, and not just the tips of the icebergs that I share with you. Doing anything less would make a liar out of me, as far as I’m concerned. I was fearless in ’03, I’ll be fearless now.

I have misgivings about this, though. I’m concerned that family members who hold me in such light back home will be shocked to find that I have my vices. I am a member of the United States Air Force, and I’m concerned that future supervisors and commanders might read this blog and think I’m crazy or somehow unfit to lead because of the opinions I hold, and admittedly sometimes my opinions conflict with each other.

The internet is a crazy invention, isn’t it? To me, it’s a method of communication. Much like I speak my mind when I’m with friends, I have to treat this medium as me speaking, and when I say something here I need to be telling the truth, all of it. I think that even if I didn’t run a blog, people will find out sooner or later what my opinions and values are, and I don’t try to hide them in my day-to-day real life, so I guess I shouldn’t be hiding them here, either. I’ll speak, and I’ll take responsibility for the consequences, for better or for worse.

That said, I guess I’m due for an update. Switching to TJ…

-TJ (admin)

Removed RSS feed from google shared… it wasn’t giving me exactly what I wanted, mainly putting links to the actual articles.

I’ll have to figure out a way around that, I want to share links still but it’s not gonna be as easy as I thought.

-TJ

This site will be moving at some point in the future to ockets.net. I guess I’ll be working on that this weekend. I will be refitting this website so that it becomes a message board for people looking for others with the last name of Olaes, like I originally intended when I first got this domain back in 2002.

For some reason I can’t post past a certain length… I’ll investigate this later.

Akimset has apparently protected me from 104 spam comments in the lifetime of this blog… I got my first spam “miss” today, which I was happy to manually tag as spam.

Way to go, Akimset. More people (read: Alvin) should incorporate this automagic protection into their blogs.

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C’mon, Alvin. Use that prophylactic.

-TJ

Just switched over to lunarpages hosting… now I’m Lawrence’s and Cookie’s neighbor.

-TJ