Back in the early ’90s William Strauss and Neil Howe published a book titled Generations. I read the book and I was captivated by its ideas.  At about that same time I was getting drawn into the computer world that was exploding around me.  I built a little set of tables in a new-fangled piece of software, called a spread-sheet, that illustrated the ideas that I had read in Generations. That little spread-sheet sat on my computer for a couple more years until, about ’96, I ran head-on into the internet. As soon as I understood what the world wide web was all about the first thing I wanted to do was get my little spreadsheet out there so I could find out what others thought of the ideas. Continue reading »
Feb 12
So many possibilities.
I have been thinking about what I want to do with this blog. I have come up with a few possibilities. All of my immediate ideas fall into the general catagory of documenting my TimePage adventures in the past, present and future. The TimePage has a blog but I have decided to limit it to discussion of the TimePage ideas and to serve as a supplemental repository for content related to the TimePage and the subject of History. Therefore I am going to pursue some, and hopefully all, of the following topics in this blog.
- History – I have wanted, for some time, to put down in writing the history of the TimePage. It has been online for 12 years now – an eternity in internet time – and I need to document it while I can recall it.
- Genealogy – One of my other time eaters is my Family Genealogy. I have noticed that the generational history of the timepage is a natural fit with the generation in my Family Tree. I have made a feeble attempt to incorporate the one into the other but a lot more needs to be done.
- Philosophy – Just recently I made a major decision regarding the direction I want to go with the TimePage. The TimePage is long overdue for a major overhaul and it wouldn’t be worth it if I didn’t bring something new to the table. This philosophy begs to be organized and written down before I begin the ugliness of redoing the pages.
- Online Direction – I think I need to think out loud a little bit about what I really want to do with my online presence. I think I have drifted into a plan recently but, again, it needs to be fleshed out a little better. This is where the rubber meets the road.
- Personal – Lastly, a place to document my opinions and my uncertainty about the other things in my life. Books are a big part of my experience and I am going to be talking about them for sure (see previous post).  Pictures are going to be shared. I don’t know at what level yet, but they are also an important bit of my existence. And maybe a little about movies, music and TV, but not as much. I won’t be talking about my family, as much as I love and cherish them all. I don’t presume to know what they would like to share with you all, so I won’t try.
Feb 12
Over the years I have started and discarded a few blogs and a few websites. Today, I probably have a half dozen or so active sites that I set up for really good reasons at the time, I’m sure. But I am getting a little bored with all of the “social” sites, and sharing blogs out there. Therefore, I think I am going to close a few of them down and back off to just the ones in which I am actually providing content, and this one. This site is obscure beyond reason, and it will essentially just be for me, but I want to have a single open place to call my own.
The one exception to that general plan is Twitter. Right now, for reasons I have yet to decipher, I like Twitter. There is a feed on the front page of this blog for my last few posts on Twitter, as well as links back to the last few posts in my TimePage blog, The TimeLog.  Those two and what I write here will pretty much cover my internet presence.
Well, here goes nothing.
