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One-Eyed
One eye sees, the other feels.
-- Paul Klee
Wednesday, December 15, 1999
One year ago: Last Two-Tone Tuesday
I got a shock when I went to put my contacts in, this morning -- my left contact lens was in shards! I'd evidently dropped it on the edge of its little compartment last night, then shut the case, crushing the tiny thing. Arggh! I have no back-up pair, and no glasses.
So I drove to work with the world in a half blur, and made an appointment with a "preferred provider" optical shop. I can't be seen until Friday morning, which is aggravating. I'm able to do my work, at least the bare minimum, but I'm operating under two handicaps, now: this nasty bug, and half-vision!
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Jorn of Robot Wisdom had been doing some experimenting with displaying mini-banners for other weblogs on his site. We had some discussion on the weblog mailing list today, about what the hits from the banner really mean. I think it annoyed him! He ended by taking the ads off his page, and getting rid of the whole thing. I did regret this. I'd changed the subject line in the thread that led to him taking this action (but I don't think that's why he did this), and commented on how I now had a better idea of the amount of traffic his page gets than how much my own weblog gets -- because my mini-banner was responsible for a couple of thousand hits a day on my site, without a corresponding increase in traffic to my home page or this journal.
The whole "linking to others" thing is just as problematic in the weblog world as in the online journal neighborhood. I've never had a list of "journals I read;" it would be too problematic if I stopped reading someone (that doesn't happen often). I know I don't like seeing any such list if I'm not on it! (Irrational, I know.) I don't list the weblogs I read, either, though I'm still considering linking to Seattle-based weblogs. If I have a focus there, it's Seattle stuff.
One difference in the weblog world: there really are webloggers who have a ton more traffic than other folks. So if they list you for a while, then take you off their list -- ouch! Some people have gotten quite irked about this; one prominent weblogger's list of weblogs had morphed into a general listing, not a list of his favorites. When he tried to pare it back down, people didn't like getting removed.
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I was concerned when I was unable to dial in to my ISP this evening. Had I left their bill unpaid? I'd gotten reminder mail that I owed them a small sum at the beginning of the month, but that didn't seem to be enough for them to turn me off, and I'd been getting mail via telnet all day.
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