Posted by Joe on Dec 30, 2005 2:04 pm.
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Tech Trends.
The pixel wars have started. A 21 year old college student from England launched a new website called
www.milliondollarhomepage.com. It’s a brilliant idea and basically involves selling individual pixels on a webpage as advertising space. The minimum ad buy is 10 x 10 pixels. His goal is to reach $1 million and he’s already at $961,300 (at the time of this post). His idea has been all over the media this week so I’m sure he’ll reach his goal. He started the site to earn money for college but he’s far exceeded that. The only thing he’s bought so far is a brand new Mini Cooper, since he just got his license.
I’m thinking about starting a similar site for my art advertisers off SeattleArtists.com. I actually think, aside from the revenue it generates, the site looks really cool as a sort-of collage of different pixel graphics. It’s also a steal for the advertisers as far as ad prices go. $100 bucks for a 10 x 10 ad is pretty cheap these days.
There is also a growing list of copy-cat sites popping up. Click on the page jump below to view a partial list.
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Posted by Joe on Dec 24, 2005 7:14 pm.
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General Journal.
Just wanted to wish everyone a happy holiday and a super new year.
On another note… I stumbled across a folder that I used to keep all my personal writings in. The folder is old and dog-eared and has the words “Writer’s Block” written across the front, although I’m not sure why. Anyway, inside I found a bunch of old notes, stories and poems that I’d written and stuffed away. One of them was a short story I wrote the year after graduating from college sometime around Christmas 1993. The story takes place at christmas 10 years in the future, which incidentally would have been in 2002, so it was interesting to read and look back on where I thought I’d be today. At that time I was in the closet, living in North Carolina working for a computer consulting company and was preparing to enter active duty in the Army. I’m not sure what the story says about me to other people who read it, but to me it brings back very clearly the struggle I was having at that time with my sexuality and the straight life I was hiding behind. It also reminds me of how desparately I wanted to find someone I could relate to and that I had already resigned myself to someday getting married and living the “normal” life. It also occurred to me that it’s very similar to the new movie “Brokeback Mountain”. Go see it if you have the opportunity.
Anyway, I decided to post the entire story here. Click through below to continue reading. I hope you enjoy it.
Merry Christmas!
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Posted by Joe on Dec 1, 2005 12:37 pm.
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General Journal.
A friend of mine sent this over to me. It’s a picture from our Halloween party at the house. I dressed up as a boxer who, from the looks of it, was on the losing end of a fight. It’s funny how the camera flash really brings things out in a picture. I didn’t realize I looked this beat up lol
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