Is it March 14th already?

I guess I should wish myself a happy anniversary.

I've been blogging for one full year now!

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A slight change of focus

Hi! Techsplorer here with a bit of news to pass along.

This blog will soon be the only blog I keep. This blog (formerly) was exclusively dedicated to books. Now I will be also using this blog to talk about the other things that interest me.

Whereas I have (previously) talked about these other topics in my other blogs, I've been having a bit of trouble remembering where I discussed what.

So now they'll all be here.

This includes any previous posts that I've made in any of my other blogs; in time I'll fold those posts into this blog (I'll keep the other blogs around though so any comments or links there won't be lost).

I just wish blogger had some mechanism that would allow me to move posts easily from one blog I own to some other blog I own (in this case, this blog right here).

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Technorati blog claim

Here is a link to my Technorati Profile; I'm posting it to claim this blog.

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The Fifth Element [From my "Back Story" blog]

The fifth element in my journey to blog overload was launched on Monday, November 13th. It's a little thing called Love All Books (and I do love all books, for the most part, though I'll admit that I find some books by certain parties of political extremism do induce strong feelings of anxiety!)

If I'm going to provide "back story" on my life, I guess I need to post soon about just what my life is like at the moment. That is my plan for the next post (or the post after, no later than that!)

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Sad to say...

The sad part about this blog is that I'm a very slow reader, so please bear with me. I tend to be reading at least one or two fictional books at any given time (I just finished reading The Miserable Mill, book 4 in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events).

 

This is in addition to reading my Photoshop textbook, and the one or more nonfiction books I'm typically working on at any given time (at the moment, that's Who Let the Blogs Out?: A Hyperconnected Peek at the World of Weblogs by Biz Stone, and PHP 5 Objects, Patterns, and Practice by Matt Zandstra.

      

It is also sad that I'm hopelessly outnumbered by the authors out there. I can really relate to Henry Bemis, the character played by Burgess Meredith in the "Time Enough at Last" episode of The Twilight Zone (and yet, not even I want time to read that badly!)

I hope Riley, my soon-to-be six-year-old kindergartener, is a faster reader than I when he grows up or I will feel somewhat awful that I'm turning him on to books; I'd hate for him to have to deal with the frustration I endure! But I gotta admit, it is great watching him learn to read! He read—almost completely on his own—Hop on Pop (by Doctor Seuss) to me last night (imagine: he had trouble with "Constantinople" and "Timbuktu"!)

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