Unsupported customer type

June 29, 2004 D. H. McKee

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Got woken up at 5am this morning. A customer paged me and I misunderstood the message on my Blackberry. It said “Unsupported media type in header,” and I groggily thought this was an error message on his server. I replied that there was nothing to worry about — that the “text” file being compressed was probably not a text file, and wouldn’t be processed by the server. He replied in a panic, because that wasn’t really the issue. No, the issue was actually much more trivial. He was emailing because he saved a .tar.gz file as a .tar file. Now Windows didn’t know what it was, and couldn’t open it in Winzip. I promptly fell back asleep.

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As a guy who occasionally curates art shows and wrangles artists together, I often have to edit and post artist bios, profile pictures, and artwork images. This can be a problem, since many artists and writers aren’t used to selling themselves. Artists rarely know how to present their art for display in a brochure, and writers aren’t used to writing about themselves.

Writers often treat the bio like it’s an interview or something. Maybe like they’re having a conversation with you, the reader. While it may work sometimes, the most common way to write a bio is to write in the 3rd person.

I’m like those writers, and I’m talking to you directly, unlike the common way to do a bio. You should see my About page. It makes sense to me, since this is a bit which describes my blog’s website. When I get famous enough that I don’t have time to talk to you, I’ll have an intern write everything in 3rd person. Until then, you get to talk to me.

Like blogs of old, this one is a personal document of the comings and goings of me. Articles I’ve written, links I’ve posted, videos I liked, etc. Here, a first-person perspective is the way to go, at least for now. So, this is my site. I’m D. H. McKee, a sometimes artist, sometimes writer. Mostly just a guy on the internet.