This blog is two years old. Reading back over it, I’ve found lots of entries that I really enjoyed writing and many that were a waste of webspace. I hope to have another couple of years fun with this. I expect to retire in four or five years and I will try to sell my domains then and sit on a cliff in Maine and watch the ocean for 8 hours a day.

I chose today to start my Technical Tips for Webmasters blog. I will be updating that weekly with random stuff to make web pages better. The URL is www.altitudeunknown.com. This is one in a series of aviation URLs that I registered for Erica and she wants to do something with them someday. In the mean time, I am using it for the new blog.

Other news snippets:

I started listening to Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange Land, yesterday. It has not been my favorite Heinlein for a while. It is the first novel where Heinlein starts to get real weird about sex. Still, in the beginning it uses the basic techno-thriller plot-line, and I am having a good time listening to it. I finally bought it because Amazon has cut the prices on their cassetes, including books on tape. I guess most cars have CDs now. Erica’s new Jeep has CD only and she can’t listen to any of the cassettes that she likes. My next car will have to have a cassette player – I have too much invested in books on tape.

I finished listening to Isaac Asimov’s Murder at the ABA on tape. Asimov has written a perfectly executed mystery novel. Perfect, just not very good. I will sell it on eBay unless a reader wants to borrow it.

www.rockfind has made $1.89 in 12 days. This is about 15 cents a day. These things rise exponentially over time, though. Another site, www.harplinks.com, got four clicks that paid $2 each. I need more clicks like that. I wish I knew what the keywords were.

I added a forum to harpamps.com. The chat room thing was a total waste of energy. I hope the forum works out. I will be seeding it today with questions and answers to get the ball rolling. Forums seem to get much of my traffic at other sites. Harpamps gets the most traffic of all my sites and I hope the forum will double it as well as double my income off the site.

Marjorie Brown, a high school clasmate of mine, is somewhere in New Orleans and I hope she is safe from hurricanes.