I applied to both Goolge and Amazon and my affiliate applications are under review. I wonder how you get turned down for these programs? I keep trying the iTunes sign-up butI get stuck on the next to the last page. I wonder what that is all about.

I was also wondering today. Is there a similar writing community like exists around an open source project? My good friend Paco (see link top upper left) has this blog where he shares his progress, goals, etc about Mono. He and many other contributors also have similar blogs. They get mashed together in what is called the Monologue. Together this collection of blogs give a great overview of the mono community. This overview includes their indivual quirks, but it serves as a daily snapshot of this vibrant community. I bet it even serves as inspiration for the community; where each post feeds energy into the community. I imagine this energy expanding and contracting to keep the project moving forward.

I came up with this idea to add grafitti to the sides of the template I chose. I’ve ran into two problems so far. First, the template uses proportionate spacing. Depending on the size of your browser, there is more or less space around the centered image. Therefore, I will not be able to put a “fixed image” on a variable design. Second, the style.css file already has a body background image. So I can’t figure out to put up a “page” background behind the body background. So I’m back to the drawing board.

I borrowed a few DHTML and CSS books, maybe they can help.

Add to the list:

1. Add categories.
2. Update existing entries with new category
3. Test the wp-photo.php plug-in for WordPress

Well I finally got around to playing with WordPress and templates. Thanks to Alex King I picked up one I thought was cool. I think it makes the site easy to read, but it wasn’t totally what I had in mind. Anyway, It’ll have to do for now.

Here is a quick hit list of the top to dos for the site:

1. Add a blogroll
2. Add resumes
3. Test photo upload, research photo-blog hacks for WordProess
4. Test page background
5. Add article index
6. Apply for Google and iTunes affiliation
7. Add Google Adwords

That should keep me busy for a while.

“Keep pushing. Keep pushing.”
REO Speedwagon

It can be a very debilitating thing to see your vision so far from where you stand. All the more reason to get started one step at a time. Because if you never start, well….. you know the rest.

I believe strongly in describing something before you attempt to create it. Now is not the time to get into why, but it deserves some love sometime. Anyway, as I am trying to bring into focus my vision for my success portal I made a tough decision.

A friend that is helping me asked who’s the site for. Now I now, it’s for me. I’m going to use it to tie together all of the schizophrenic tangents that I’m spending my time on. Here’s how I came to this decision.

I believe that within me lies truth, pure truth. This is usually how I really feel about something, but am unable to get myself to accept. It can also be the combination of my feelings with my sense of what is to come or what you might call my intuition. In this case, I wanted to discover how I really felt about the website and what it should become. Here’s a real shocker, I wanted this project to be something different, something new. Oh boy, I was thinking, no one has thought of that before.

It can sometimes be hard to get at this truth, so I made a way to trick myself and see how I really feel. To start this process I will defocus my eyes and fix them on not seeing anything. Like what you would have done to see those 3D stereograms that everyone could see but me. All I ever got out of trying to see the 3D images was a headache. I did pick up the whole defocus but yet fix them on a focal point trick.

So once I have my eyes fixed, I will then pull this fixed focal length into myself. Almost like as if I was able to reverse the direction of my vision to look within myself. Once I’m able to reverse my view, I fix them upon myself. Once I have a lock I then start contemplating what is on my mind. It’s freaky, but it’s like I can see the synapses firing because I see my thoughts shooting around. I follow what whizzes by and filter what I can. It usually doesn’t take long before a picture begins to form. Usually this picture shows me what I need to see so that I can solve what is bugging me. I call this whole process using my mind’s eye.

So reaching through my mind’s eye, this is what I came up for x-cito.com. First and foremost, this site is about me. It is a virtual representation of me. Of me, my thoughts, maybe even my soul. So I’m not really concerned about who shall come, and what their expectations may be. These expectations are external to me, so they do not exist.

Once I saw the picture, I snapped my focal point back to normal. It usually takes a moment to adjust, but then I’m back and with a new perspective on my thoughts and feelings. It’s sometimes then followed by a little dizziness and a little headache. I guess it’s just something about messing around with your vision to see things that don’t seem to exist that gives you sort of a hangover or something. Obviously, this is not something I recommend you try at home.