Xagronaut

While they may not be huge accomplishments on any grand scale, I’ve managed to do pretty well over the last few weeks at hitting some goals and completing some mundane tasks.  I just submitted a sizeable medical reimbursement account claim after all this time

.  Fortunately, my record keeping structure made it manageable this time.

In addition, I have recently developed my skills with Paint Shop Pro.  I have updated the checkbook program (Money) with all of the available transaction data.  My files are currently under control.

Now, the question is, can I (with all of these other things taken care of) still manage to do the things that I’ve been dreaming of?  We’ll see.

Lots of tech reading to do: C# and Perl, content management systems, and ASP.NET.  RSS and XML and NewsML.

For anyone who has read this spot in recent history, you’ll notice that this post is more relaxed, less audience-driven, and more about me.  Good.  That feels better.

Blogging? Yeah, I’m into it alright. Can you tell?

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Jeez… I’ve written about 200 lines of code so far, just for the base class of my form processing thingy in my CMS. It has a good deal of comments, but still.

I think it’s going to rock though. Finally, it’ll be easy (at least easier) to write correct code to process web-forms. Now, writing the HTML forms is another matter. I want to make that easier too If PHP only had closures I’d be able to design this one way… but nooo.

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I currently envy Keith who is well on his way to writing his own custom Content Management System.  Keith seems to be doing a lot better job of actualizing his ideas that I am at present.  Good job Keith.

I regularly on the web to see these days.  Also at .  I primarily search for the word “xagronaut” because there is no other word on the Internet that can be mistaken for my handle.   No overlap of meaning or acronym or first and last name.  Nope.  “Xagronaut.”  That’s me and nobody else.

I also get some play on searching for my Radio UserLand .  There is some noise along with that signal though, so the results are not totally pure.  Most of the results I find this way are automated services.

In Search of a Unique Name
I wasn’t satisfied with a handle until it was rather distinctive.  “Jeff Miller” isn’t very distinctive if you think about it.  “xagronaut”–well, there’s nothing like quite like that.  Unfortunately, it’s hard to write for all audiences under a moniker like that.  Yes, I value my religious beliefs highly, and yes, .

I don’t know if that scares away (turns off) most techie readers.  I don’t feel as though I should feel ashamed of my beliefs.  I’m just thinking I can better address the two distinct audiences I’m writing for if I separate the content appropriately.  However, both elements are part of who I am, and those cannot be separated.

Back to Google counts

My Google count has hovered at about 450 - 800 for a while.  I occasionally find a new link added that wasn’t there before.  Well, all of a sudden, my Google counts jumped to 2540.  And, no, it’s not because I suddenly made the blogger “A-list” (psffsstf!  My best raspberry sound ;-).  It’s because more and more people are using automated tools for indexing weblogs and cross-referencing referrers.  So while my Google counts are expanding, it still does not look like many non-machines/humans care than did when I was around the 450 mark.  Oh, well.  At least I know the spiders are reading my blog.  Thanks guys.  I hope you enjoy my encoding.

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