Blogging from Away

August 14, 2004 D. H. McKee

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Blogging from C’s apartment this afternoon, because I can. We spent the afternoon over coffees at the Gelato place and I spent much of the time being frustrated that there was an open wifi signal not 20m from the place we were sitting (it was low/good where I parked my car, across King St.). I wanted to be able to sit in a coffee shop, or be on a patio, blogging while I was there. It’s the thing that Waterloo sadly lacks.
It started raining, so we moved over to C’s place, not a block away, and he’s got wifi going, so no problem. The Telelogix Netbook is OK for this kind of stuff, but its keyboard has a strange layout, and it’s not so good for working on UNIX, via SSH. I downloaded what I thought was a good SSH client, but it doesn’t allow me to copy/paste from other apps, such as the web browser. It made things like upgrading X11 on my webserver a bit more difficult, since I needed to copy some long URLs from IE.
I would like to see more coffee shops in Waterloo adopt some kind of open wifi technology. It’s not very expensive, and there are free, open source solutions out there, such as http://www.publicip.net/.

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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.