Everyone should know how important it is to get listed in directories, however, just because you submit your website does not mean that your website will be accepted. In fact, many websites are turned down on a daily basis for one reason or another.

The very first thing you need to learn when it comes to tips and tricks to get listed in directories is how to submit your website properly. Your website should be ready before you even consider submitting it to directories.

In reference to this entry, I feel that since there were those who cared enough to post extremely useful insights (and, I assume, those who did me the favor of keeping their insights to themselves) I'm somewhat bound by reponsibility to make an update on that count.

I want 5 year old English speaking children all over the world to learn the name of my profession alongside Doctor, Lawyer, Plumber, Fireman and Policeman. For that to happen, it needs to be easy to say and remember. Digital Systems Analyst is utterly useless. Sysadmin is incomplete. Geek and techhead miss the idea of a job.

(Once again, the topic isn't right, but Slashdot lacks a Pointless Pedantry topic. Probably with good reason.)

Is there any existing mathematical system, I ask myself and my friends, which includes the idea of the empty slate? Not the null set, or zero, but that to which every symbol is added, the place where the signified interacts.

Honestly, this should go in the "Slashdot Whining" Topic, but aparently that's not an option, so there you go.

Just to follow up on my last journal... I'd like to make a formal apology for getting suckered into this. My only excuse was that I was riding a crypto based app-design project at the time.

I am convincing myself that I'm stepping out of my abstracted Slashdot persona for purposes of experiment. I've watched and learned quite a bit from the requests for advice of others in their /. journals, but it isn't something I've done before. So, in the interests of science (and this is my first time...):