dragoncortez's Journal: Self-congratulatory notes

I'll try not to break my arm patting myself on the back. I don't remember if I mentioned this before (and can't be bothered with searching through journals past to verify it), but I created a website for my apartment back in February. I did most of the work myself, but my (now former) roommate who is a web programmer helped out from time to time. It's nothing spectacular, but all along we've struggled to find something to keep people coming back to it.

At first we thought that putting up party announcements would get people filling up our logs, but the parties kind of dried up a few months back. Then, I created a mailing list for friends to get together downtown to eat lunch. That's just led to more inconvenience to me rather than an increase in traffic. Finally, a few weeks ago, a thought occurred to us that seems to be working out. Since I gave up any pretense at regularly posting journal entries here at Slashdot, I thought it would be a great idea to start over with twice-a-week articles on our website. My friend was supposed to help by posting at least one article a week, but so far, it looks like one a month will be it.

In any case, I've now successfully posted at least two articles a week for three weeks. It was a close one this week, but Some Woman's Note-Passing saga provided the requisite inspiration for today's article.

In related news, my arm continues to be in danger due to our product nearing beta test. Yes, we were supposed to release on the 20th, but apparently the feature set we promised was insufficient. So now, we get to add more stuff and then get real people to start using it. I will give out as many free passes as I can to those interested in trying out our anti-spam solution.

Yes, but...

[Some Woman]

Did you make sure to slip a copy of the article under everybody's door?

Re:Yes, but...

[dragoncortez]

dang it! I knew I forgot something.

link???

[SolemnDragon]

i demand linkage!!! ..er... please?

Re:link???

[dragoncortez]

Well, ok, since you asked nicely. Just so you know, I did leave it off on purpose. (1) I could never hope to compete with the Twins. (2) My intention was merely to log my goings-on. (3) My audience for the articles was definitely not the Slashdot crowd, although I do mention y'all from time to time.

http://www.thehomestarmy.com/articles.php

Re:link???

[SolemnDragon]

cool. i'll check it out in a little while when things calm down here. It's oke- i have the courage! and the five bucks!!!

Hell, even *i* can't compete with the twins... Lawrence, the supreme dictator of my fan club, has decided that my horror fiction and poetry must be supplemented by twin dialogue in the newsletter, so now i have to come up with the stuff on demand!!?!!