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Today is the first day of Blog-a-Day Month. The rules are simple: Blog each day, but don’t be a dick about it, and you win. Whoopie. What do you win? You win the full congratulations of the creator of Blog-a-day Month. Wow. Could anything be better? It’s kinda like one of those ads with the triangles. “95% got this wrong. How many triangles?” So you click it because you think you’re special. It’s kinda like that. If you complete the Blog-a-Day month, you think you’re special.

On the positive side, Blog-a-Day Month creates action on your blog, and action creates more opportunities for something that someone else actually wants to read, and may create more activity and traffic to your blog, creating more chances for the accidental click on your ads, bringing in a couple of cents more per month. Also, it should help get the creative juices flowing for National Novel Writing Month in November.

I didn’t have time today to sit and plan out a post for the beginning of Blog-a-Day Month, but I did have some random thoughts today that I’d like to share with you. If you don’t like it, well, that’s just too bad.

Random Thought #1:
Why did color faxing never catch on? If the faxing specification was made to be expandable, as most specifications were, fax machines could have had a color mode. They could have also communicated at 28 kbs, 33.6 or even 56 kbs, but no, the specification is for 14.4. It could have also been expanded to send color faxes. I do remember reading some manuals that if a specific fax machine called the exact same model, it would enable a 28 kbs mode, but what are the chances of actually calling the exact same model, unless you’re part of a gigantic corporation, and then you’d be emailing the information instead of faxing it.

That got me into Random Thought #2:
Way back, ’bout 25 years ago, I remember going to the Post Office to purchase a money order to buy a 300 baud modem for the Commodore 64. I’d dial up to a FIDOnet bbs and download some games. Email in those days was more like sending a postcard than email is today. It was called email, but it was really a distributed forum. Each bbs called another and swapped new postings. It took a couple of days for posts to get across the country, and things were really out of order. Downloading games took hours, and you would have to pull a game off of one bbs and upload it to another to get access to the downloads. That was how they took care of leachers in those days. Then some genius figured out how to get asynchronous file transfers, so it only took an hour to both upload and download some crappy software that would take less than a second using today’s broadband technology.

Random Thought #3:
I was at a bar today, waiting for the son’s basketball practice to get over, and I was wondering if they had any Sailor Jerry’s Rum, and the following conversation ran through my head.
“What can I get you?”
“Got any Sailor Jerry’s Rum?”
“Sure. What do you want with it?”
“A straw.”

Random Thought #4:
Why is there FarmTown and FarmVille? Both have some issues. If you could take one thing from FarmTown that FarmVille doesn’t have, and add it to FarmVille, they would probably both be great.

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