How Meta is this. I am blogging on how I have been working on my blog. Neat.

Last night I did a little time travel, I went back into my old tribe blog and started archiving all my old posts. I saved them all into a web archive format so that I could access them online. The pictures aren’t gonna be perfect, and the links might not all work, but at least the content will be there. I now need to post date all the posts and paste them into my Wordpress system.

Art has been doing some amazing work on the new skin for the View From Space site. Brian Shaw has been programming and setting up my web hosting. I feel like I have this amazing team. I am looking to roll things out very soon. It will bring together my writing, my carton projects that are developing, pictures, and video from my mad adventures, social networks I am a part of, my twitter feed, and my google reader feeds. It should be really cool. Art has also been helping me with tags and categories for my blog. I am so excited about finally having a good website for myself.

I am also experimenting with a program for Macs called Blogo. It has a cute bunny icon. It is an offline text editor that automatically posts your blog. It can’t post to multiple blogs at once, which would be nice. But it can handle tags and categories. It likes drag and drop pictures and video, which is key for me. The web interface of wordpress can be a little wonky from time to time. So far, first post, I like it. When I hit send, a twitter should be automatically generated. Neat.

I am also going to have google ad-words and an Amazon associates account attached to the blog. If anything I mention sounds interesting to you, please go ahead and check it out. I get pennies, but if I make a cent on this, I’ll be happy. Hand over fist cash would be nice, too. My next step is to expand an audience. How on earth am I going to get more people to read my blog? I keep hearing the words aggregator and pings… I should probably figure out what those mean.

Going back in the history of my blog was really interesting. My blog goes back years. There are like 250 entries in there. What’s kind of cool is that I get to see all the spaces I have gone through in the last few years. I get to see who was regularly in my world. I got to see who I was.

I like who I have become.

I have been confounded of late by the complete unreliability of tribe.net.  I really love the site, and have for years, but I miss being able to get my regular blogs. I love reading blogs, but I hate having to open them all over the place. So I decided to look into this RSS thing.

RSS stands for Really Simple Syndicating. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_(file_format)) Basically, it goes to sites you designate (they are the ones you check for new content daily on) and puts them all into one site.

I am using Google Reader. It’s free and web based. I am just now learning it, but it seems pretty simple. It gives all the blogs and stuff you read a unified look. You can also subscribe to flickr photo streams (find KT’s, Josh’s and Angel Adam’s feeds, even video. You can get non blog feeds, like fedex and ups tracking,weather alerts, and automated ebay auction searches.  Like I said, I am just learning it. But I see this whole new world.

google.com/reader and apparently, they just released a version for the iphone.

others I have not used. shrook for the mac (free and offline, so it storse on your hardrive utsire.com/shrook), FeedDemon for windows and netnewswire for macs available at newsgator.com

so to subscribe, your reader needs a site’s rss feed site. This will look like a regular website. For example, my blog here has a feed site( feed://spaceman23.wordpress.com/feed/) just paste that into google reader, and viola! anytime I post here, you will be able to see it in your reader program.

Most sites where you blog will automatically create a RSS feed for you (even myspace!). Although, I am not sure if tribe does it, mainly because tribe no worky anymore.  Now that you are looking for it, keep you eye out for the little orange icon at the top of this page.  Then paste those feeds into your reader!

My friend Ali turned me onto a really cool internet hack, using youtube to learn how to do anything. Basically, type in “how to…” and there will be videos from hundreds of sources around the net.  I learned how to use automater in mac the other day, and how to import video from my flip to imovie. check out this video.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ihbh1HguIUk]

click this if the video no worky: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ihbh1HguIUk

It’s a little dry, but i love that my friend the internet can show me everything I need to know. I loves the internets.

I remember when I first started learning about sleep.  I was in high school and in a psychology class and our teacher Mr. Chip Phillips told us that sleep was for learning and processing.  I always thought it was for relaxing.

2. I am taking Ryan’s staff class. I am not exactly sure why, really, other than he invited me. I have no interest in performing with it. It is his method that interests me.  I like the idea of physical tasks being much easier than we think. I am intererested in Metaprogramming my human biocomputer, especially in my interactions in the structural realm.  I am also practicing with my axe. I had to trim some tree limbs up at the cabin, that thing can chop wood like nobody’s business.

I missed a couple of blogging days. I did however spend a bunch of time on my personal writing projects. So to get back into the swing of things, I will do another 10 Things.

TEN THINGS I LOVE ABOUT MY LIFE

1. I am trying some new web blogging programs. Today I am trying Wordpress (thanks everyone). I like it. I just need to figure out a way to post date posts and get all my old blog posts from tribe into this other site. I am really loving my blogging lately. It has been such an opening for me.

2. The media I have been getting into lately. It has all been so good! I am rereading Promethea and in the process relearning magick that I thought I had all figured out.  I finished BSG season 3. It was absolutely incredible! I saw Forgetting Sara Marshal last week with Alicyn and it was so much better than I expected. A friend loaned me the new series of Dr. Who. It makes me want to time travel! And then there are my podcasts and audiobooks I am listening to. Eckhart Tolle’s A New Earth and Tim Ferriss’ the 4-Hour Workweek have been rocking my world! I guess being freelance and unemployed does have it’s benefits.  I am really just amazed at how good everything is!

3. Despite being without work this week, I have no concerns for money. I am just not worried.  Flow.

4. Through my good friend Sammy and his wonderful girlfriend I have a connection with HBO’s experimental webfilms division. It has me really thinking what less than a minute kind of short films can I get out there?  Obviously, I am going to need some help. Who’s in? Last night, I did a list of my production resources and holey moley, I have great resources!

5. Between working out and the no sweets and booze… I am really loving my body.  Not like loving the way it looks, but treating my body like I really love it. It’s been really fantastic.

6. I love my macbook.  The other day, I got to go to the Mac Store to deal with a minor missing program that I accidently deleted. They replaced it lickity split and I ended up spending an extra $60 on a program and iphone case. I left happy. By contrast, when I called microsoft to just deal with an extra $2 charge that I wanted to get removed,  I had to deal with 2 emails, an hour of phone time, mostly made up of hold time, I talked to 4 different people, and got hung up on. The $2 issue, still not resolved.

7. Another benefit of plenty of free time is that I have been sleeping really well lately. I have these amazing dreams, full of incredible special effects, dazzling characters and spectacular scenery.

8. Birds. It’s springtime and several families of birds have taken up residence all around my house. It’s so beautiful.

9. I also have a pool. Wolfie pointed out that with a pool comes certain maintenance responsibilities. For instance, on hot days, sometimes you have to just hang out around it to make sure your responsibilities are handled. Cold drinks and music add to the quality of this maintenance.

10. Number ten is always difficult for me. Okay. Flowers. My roommate is a gardener. He has this habit of cutting fresh flowers and putting them around the house. It’s nice. It is also nice that all around my house are all these beautiful flowers this spring. It’s gorgeous.

Yeah… It’s a good life.