Today was spent trying to dig myself out from under a backlog of stuff. Things are always piling up on my desk, but after two weeks of only going at about half-speed, it's worse than usual. I didn't get through nearly all of it, but it looks like I've got a decent chance of having most of the day available tomorrow, so hopefully orderliness will prevail before long.
The last few years there's just been more and more and more stuff to handle and keep track of, and all my systems are really in need of an overhaul. I'm just not as efficient as I need to be, but it's hard to find time to work on organization and stuff when you're just trying to keep up.
I spent a fair amount of time poking around LJ today, actually, in between working on stuff. It's a good way to keep going. I like to jump from one thing to another to another, typically three or four different things going at the same time is about right for me. Of course, when there are a lot of interruptions it's hard to keep things bounded, but there haven't been too many the last couple of days, so it's nice when I'm able to work that way, just keep chugging away in my office until I finally want a break. Today that came about 5:30, I finally went and got some lunch with my 2nd daughter. I like to take a late lunch (my dad was the same way) but 5:30 is pretty late, even for me.
I still haven't got a profile picture for my MySpace page. After thinking about it for a while, I decided I wanted something really dull or non-snazzy, since I'm somewhat contrarian and everyone else on there is trying to look so dazzling and sexy. Eventually I thought I should get a picture of a turtle, since I always liked them and they kind of match my personality.
I looked some but didn't find a picture I liked. Though turtles are a fighter jock symbol, I don't guess they've got sole rights on it, so maybe I'll find a picture I like before long. In any case, I found a really funny video of a turtle vs. a cat. As you can see, persistence is a strength of turtles!
Though we had both turtles and cats when I was a kid (among other things, actually we had a lot of pets for well inside the city), it's ironic that this turtle reminds me of one cat we had, who was my favorite because it was smart enough to figure out that big dogs were generally stupid and could be pushed around. The bigger they were, the more that cat went after them.
http://www.livevideo.com/video/858010D119684E7F9636B35CBD1555C0/attack-of-the-killer-tortoise.aspxTonight I also had a talk with son #2, about blogging/social networking sites. Like most teenage guys, he's really not got much to write but wants to network (or whatever you call it). He's got two sites on Xanga but as much as I like the improvements Xanga has made, there just doesn't seem to be that much traffic on it.
I track my hits on AeroGo fairly closely, and I'm getting better at pulling in traffic from outside, but there's not much coming from Xanga itself. On the other hand, Xanga looks MUCH more visually appealing to me than LJ. I guess I'd say that's the major detraction of LiveJournal in my view. They need to hire a good designer to come in and pretty it up, and add some nice photoblog features.
Xanga has nice photoblog features (beyond just the photoblog itself), but so far I've only seen them on their programmers' pages; I haven't figured out how you can implement them, and I've asked. LJ's software does seem quite solid, however, so they deserve a lot of credit for that. As far as I can tell, there's a lot more people going to LJ now than Xanga, so I told him he should probably look at putting his next site on LJ, or else FaceBook.
Another LJ advantage is that the groups/communities functionality is much more fully implemented here than with Xanga's blogrings, a powerful feature that has mostly languished. I get only a few hits, probably less than one percent of the total, from blogrings every week, even though AeroGo is on 18 of them now.
Tags: animals, family, groups, livejournal, myothersites, pets, productivity, video, xanga
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