bmabray's Journal: Weekend

Pretty productive weekend. I got a lot done on News Goat. Once I get a couple of things finished in Blog Goat, I'll be ready to make the move.

We completed the latest issue of the Mensokie. It's a lot of work, but once it's done, you've got something that looks really good. Angela does such a great job of making that look nice.

I tried to wire the house with CAT5, but didn't make any progress. Basically, I want to run a couple of wires from the upstairs computer room to the downstairs kitchen and family room. In theory, the kitchen should be easy -- the phone jack in the kitchen is directly below the phone jack in the computer room. I know there are wires running between the two already, so I should be able to run the CAT5 along the same path. But I can't find the path. When I try to run the wire down, I keep running into stuff, like insulation. I may have another path, but it involves cutting holes in floors and walls, something I was trying to avoid. We'll see... I'd switch to a wireless network, but there aren't any wireless adapters that work with Audrey, and that's the main reason I'm doing this.

I'm also done with the FTPGoat project. :-) Matt's suggestion led me down the path to finding the right options in WS_FTP, so I no longer have to write my own FTP client.

Why the name NewsGoat?

[Metrollica]

Why the name NewsGoat?

Ever since making my first fateful journey out of innocence to Goatse.cx, [goatse.cx] I have been afraid of anything with the word 'Goat' in the title.

Re:Why the name NewsGoat?

[bmabray]

Yeah, I imagine anyone who reads /. is going to be wary of that site. :-)

We named our home business Smart Goat [smartgoat.com], so I've just been putting "Goat" in the name of everything we do.

And why Smart Goat? I really don't remember... I think we were just throwing words together, and that sounded like something that would make a cool logo. And, most importantly, the domain wasn't taken. :-)

Re:Why the name NewsGoat?

[Metrollica]

I hear if you add code like this to your website:

<!-- web multimedia design software development database crafts -->

Your site will list higher on search engines, Google for sure.

Good luck with Smart Goat.