I thought so. The WordPress clock is off. I posted this at 12:25pm PST not 7:25 pm. Anyway the point of this post is that whether or not my last post was at 4:43am, since then I had clearly accepted defeat.

It was difficult through the rest of the semester, and neophyte electronics, my friend, is a demanding hobby. I had all but given up on the idea of cultivating web hits by doing interesting projects with electronics by the time the year was over. In the beginning I was motivated by MAKE magazine’s apparent need for content as well a new genre, one that hadn’t yet surpassed me with my lack of resources, but ultimately I concluded that MAKE no longer has that need.

So If I “make” it’ll be purely personal. I still love my projects and new one’s resurface but student debt is mounting and I need to find income. If I get out of school without any prospects and an even bigger load of debt I will be forced to become a bitter homesteading hermit in the Alaskan tudra. Why do I worry so much?

On the plus side of the equation I tricked myself into writing short stories by taking an accredited class on short story writing. If I hadn’t done that, the prospect of writing wouldn’t have any more appeal to me than crazy hack electronicking. Considering my self awareness, actually, perhaps I’ll manage this poverty phantom yet! Then you might see more of me on more web hits about electronicking and even on MAKE. I think this time I would use a circuit program, a flavor of Spice. Maybe I can take another class on electronics.

Oh how my mind works! If my Spring Break hadn’t started I would even have posted here probably. How I struggle and seek to conform to the job market!

I may not be very serious about taking up electronics again in the near future but I’m clever. I am developing a community website that has artistic and inventive merit. I can do it because there is the prospect of earning money if I succeed. Unfortunately I can not go into too many details. I’m sorry. However it is called m1lk or m1lk.biz depending on how I choose to brand it.

Cultivating a community is pretty tough it seems but I have some secret weapons. I have some insights that the suits probably hadn’t considered. I have a plan to partner and share hits with a someone who has a good hit stream but needs help achieving his vision, I have a friends who has net-influence and gets top Google hits for his niche, I have a revenue source, or two, I have fun and I have the attitude. I think my odds are pretty even.

It’s again a learning curve. I have set up a website before but it was pretty simple. I have Apache 2.2 installed and running, I have MySQL and ‘mostly’ running but I am butting up a wall trying to invoke Drupal’s Install script, the next step for set up. I’m cheap that’s why I am trying to roll everything on my own but who’s laughing now? I have had to purchase a new wireless modem bridge to replace my dual modem/bridge and wireless router combo. I simply can’t get the modem to port 80 forward to my computer. I probably spent 8 months worth of what I would have spent just going with a host. I just had a bad experience with a host trying to get them to place a jar file somewhere once. It was ridiculous. Maybe I just want to buy fancy things.

I have a few things to publish here, short stories and the origin of “m1lk’. See you soon.

I promise!