When I got this domain back in 2001 I was very enthusiastic about building a site, and 2 days later - was 9/11. Talk about a come down! I had written one blog posting into an HTML page, there is a screenshot below. I recall feeling challenged by how ambitious the project seemed.
I had done a few sites for others and had a page at my ISP. Oh yea, and a page at tripod, remember tripod? (they probably hate me saying that.) And I had a page at ZD-Net, remember they had pages? Both tripod and ZD-Net used a web app called SiteBuilder, god was it slow, but I liked the idea, of just updating a page in my browser. That all seems so pedestrian now.
I had already created the page below:
I figured soon enough those pages would be a logistical nightmare to maintain by hand, so I went on a search for web apps. I think an implementation of SiteBuilder cost about $10,000 back then. That was way out of my league. I was big into testing shareware and then I found Open Source. I really liked the idea of blogging and in my ambition/enthusiasm published the page below:
(By code I meant web page code.) I suppose in one sense I am not much of a blogger. Categorizing my writting has always been an amusing prospect. (That is a digression I won’t persue right now.) What I can say is I am not a diarist, I am not a Journalist, yet here is the place for parts of the story.
So here I am in a WordPress Blog posting engine. It makes me think of the Bob Seger song “Turn The Page.” It is like seeing your life in frozen moments, snapshots. I have used Postnuke and Drupal; I like Postnuke. I ended up getting into CMS admin & themeing more than posting. Does the web need another site for reviewing Web Scripts? I’m thinking little fish - big pond; other folks are better suited in many ways to cut their teeth in tech journalism, so I am not going there.
Originally:
TakeIT2.CoM was conceived of as a nexus for bringing Technology (in all its esoteric complexity, conceptual/ideal, and non-human progress) to a practical fruition. Not everyone is a technologist. How do we interact with new technologies when you have no prior firsthand contact? Do we like having some geek/fool tell us to RTFM! If reading the manuals were all it took to understand, than only the literate could understand! I’m thinking of a chimp explaining using a stick to fetch termites from a mound; it is easy to get lost in IT, so most folks avert their attention at the thought of termites as food.
In other words: Who knows where this will go.
