To Start Sans Online Perfection

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The problem with waiting to do something until you know you can do it perfectly is pretty obvious, you never start. I mean without the practice and evolution caused by repeatedly making a mistake, correcting it, learning how to avoid it, gaining insight on what works and what doesn’t, how do you get any better let alone perfect? Thus I start. Years after I tagged http://ruinexplorer.blogspot.com/ and then continuously checking up on an empty blog so that my site squatting wasn’t lost, I finally make a friggin post.

I have several online resources, many with only sparse if any content. All are grossly outdated. I have been toying recently with this idea of finally consolidating resources so that I have a somewhat coherent online presence as I did a long time ago, back when a few hundred kilobytes of web presence was something to be proud of. Now we have MySpace, FaceBook, MSN Spaces, Yahoo Spaces, and the new entry into world domination we fondly call Google… There are countless others, social networking systems by hundreds of names, free web hosting, we even have free DNS providers so that we can host our own free web servers.

Problem is, how much of this online presence even matters anymore? I mean, I would love to have an up-to-date site to help non-techies with basic computer troubleshooting. But what’s the point unless they actually use it? Time has become an increasingly precious commodity for everyone including me and while I’m all about helping peoples out, I hate to pour time into resources that go unused. However, I think at this point, I may start to slowly, if somewhat less than methodically, actually try to re-establish an online presence; primarily to help and assist, hopefully to somewhat amuse, and as a tertiary goal, to try to slate this glowing want to DO SOMETHING.

Let’s see how far this rabbit hole goes.

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