3 posts tagged “opening”
And speaking of delayed projects....After blowing things off in Second Life for the last month, I'm finally ready again to get serious with Fabb, the prefabricated housing company for that virtual world that I've been talking forever about starting up. I finally got serious for the first time a couple of months ago, because of one of my neighbors finally selling land adjacent to mine for the first time since I bought my beginner plot in 2006; this, though, now has me paying $8 a month in virtual property tax to Linden Lab, so I figured it's time to finally get something going there that could make me real money.
Anyway, I need to go out and get another two-button mouse for my home computer before I can get serious again; I'm hoping, though, to finally have my first two or three houses for sale by the beginning of June (US$5, 10, and 15 respectively), so that I can finally see if there is any actual money to be made in virtual homes or not. Hmm! In the meantime, though, I finally spruced up Fabb's Blogspot page into a customized template I'm halfway happy with; it now contains a lot better information, and has a cool little top banner and everything. Definitely subscribe to the RSS feed there if you're interested, because in the next couple of weeks I'm about to start up daily updates there again.
(Are you a YouTube person? Here's the link to the YouTube version of this video.)
Greetings, humans! Spring has officially begun here in Chicago, even if the weather hasn't caught up to it yet; it means that not only bicycling season will be starting again soon, but also the goofy little cellphone videos I regularly do during bicycling season, most of which act as supplements to the various bicycle maps I've created for use in both Google Maps and Google Earth. (I'm hoping to ramp up the amount of videos I do this year, in fact; hopefully by the time Labor Day rolls around this September, I will have shot and posted 10 to 15 of them.) Here, my first cellphone video of 2008, shot on opening day of the Chicago Cubs 2008 baseball season, which happens to be the 100th anniversary of the last time the Cubs won the World Series, a historically significant occasion that has already garnered a ton of national press, before the baseball season has even begun. Unfortunately it was a crappy, rainy day today, so I don't have a lot to share from the actual opening-day festivities; rest assured that I will be shooting another video around Wrigley Field later this summer (located, by the way, a mere four blocks from my apartment), giving a better tour of the neighborhood and showing what a more typical game day in the Wrigleyville neighborhood is like. For now, I hope you enjoy.
Just wanted to make a mention that almost all the server issues are finally worked out, and almost all the templates correctly coded and uploaded and debugged, and that we almost have a complete working website on our hands for the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography, or CCLaP. Anyway, you can check it out, along with what's already half a dozen posts of original new content, at...
Oh, and you will make sure to mention it in your own blog, right? That's the fastest way for the site to get noticed, as well as get listed higher and higher at such places as Google and Technorati, is simply by having as many fellow bloggers as possible mention it at their own blogs. You might not think your small mention helps, but it does...a lot!
Anyway, I appreciate it, and hope that you'll end up becoming a regular reader there as well as here (as well as my main personal site, since we're on the subject). Don't forget, my "Movies for Grown-Ups" series of film essays will be moving to the CCLaP website starting with the very next review, yet another reason to start reading the new blog as well.
