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Making a Hit
People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.
-- Elizabeth Gaskell. (Lady Cumnor, in Wives and Daughters)
Tuesday, December 16, 1997
I sent mail to Dave Winer yesterday, about the Frontier dream I mentioned in Sunday's entry. (I guessed he might link to it.) I wondered how many hits I might get from that. I was amazed! The "most recent entry" hits increased by 2000 percent! Plus hits on many other pages were up. I knew that the Scripting News site was widely read, but I didn't know quite how widely.
Most of the messages I have received in response to my yahoo personal ad have been very nice. But I got one today that went on for some length about a physical feature that I mentioned in the ad, then ended, "Get back to me before this Sunday, we are loosing [sic] our internet hook up." I howled with laughter! What a tempting offer!
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A co-worker was taking pictures of all the testers for his team website, so I asked him to turn the digital camera on me. Three came out reasonably well, so I'll probably incorporate one of them on my home page soon. The one I'm currently using there was a screenshot from a little movie that was incorporated in the Gardening CD-ROM project I worked on during 1995.
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It turns out that there are several local people that are Frontier users, so we might get a Frontier Users Group (FUG?) together. A users group can really be a valuble resource in learning computer stuff.
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I've started reading that bio of Anthony Trollope I got a little while ago. The author (Victoria Gendinning) does a great job of bringing to life all the family members and his childhood circumstances. She relates them to his later books, without implying that everything he wrote was patterned from his experiences. That's why they call it fiction, after all; the author makes stuff up!
Trollope had some really tough times growing up. His father was depressed and bankrupt in the country; his mother went off to America in a mercantile effort that failed, and was gone for three and a half years! What to do with "poor Tony" puzzled them greatly.
I do have a greater than average fondness for Victorian novels. I've read quite a bit of Trollope, and most of Dickens. I also enjoy Elizabeth Gaskell and other women reprinted in the green covers by Virago Press.
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