Not A Dollarshort

Life Changes

So now it probably all makes sense why my posting habits here have declined to a mockable all-time-low.

If I had posted more frequently, my entries would have most likely been about the amount of stress I was under or how tired I was from working. And, if i posted that, I'm sure a number of you would have thought "what the hell is she talking about? Movable Type can't be that hard to develop."

And, if I had ignore the self-embargo I had placed on myself not to speak about work, I feared that not only I would have said too much but I would have also created a public record of my weaknesses -- something that I was sure would come to haunt me some day.

So I wrote the sort of posts that kept me in a pre-TypePad, pre-funding state of mind. What you see in my archives from the past few months represents almost all thoughts I've had that relate to my for-public-consumption life. The fact that I've forked has been incredibly difficult to reconcile in dollarshort.org and I'm so terribly happy that, with this announcement, I'm living an secret-free existence.

We write weblogging tools because we believe in the medium. At some point, the writer has to choose what they can and can not disclose in public. Some of this has to do with strategy and some of it has to do with legalities. Weblogging is amazing because you can read the thoughts of a newly-minted CEO and understand, with one post, what has been going through her mind for the past couple months.

That's a power that we can't take for granted.

300 Exposures

After meeting Rannie at SXSW this year, he invited me to paticipate in his 300 Exposures project. Here are the photos I took around San Francisco and Tiburon.

Somewhat related note: In an attempt to not look about 14 years old, I had most of my hair cut off. Additional note: the background in these photos is the chalkboard I used for my 20x2 movie. Ben mockingly calls the set-up of me talking photos in front of this board my "photo studio." On occasion, and to the dismay of our neighbors downstairs, I've dropped the "photo studio" while taking photos. There's nothing like the sound of a 2x3 chalkboard hitting the ground from two feet up to make me feel really ridiculous and vain.

Tell No Tales

From the maker of DoomBuggies.com, the excellent Haunted Mansion resource, comes the newly launched Tell No Tales, the unofficial tribute to the Pirates of the Caribbean.

Yeah, I've been checking back repeatedly to see if this site had launched. If that makes me a dork, I accept the nomenclature gladly.