Whew…

Every single gallery on the site is now correctly building using the new tools — BME/extreme, HARD, the text-only sections, the image-only sections, etc. and all the links seem to work. There's still a ton to do but I'm calling it a night for now I think. (It's not uploaded yet; I might do that tomorrow but I'll probably just wait till my test updates instead).

Advice to people seeking a succesful entrepreneurial life… Here's the keys as I see it. There are plenty of people with far more ruthless and perhaps more traditionally successful codes, but these make me happy:

  • Only do things you believe in passionately. Anything that you don't believe in, but you still do, is poison.
  • Spend every minute you can working (playing) as hard as you can. If your work isn't making you happy, you should find different work.
  • Dream big, dream a lot, and don't be afraid to fail over and over. If you do nothing but fight for dreams, even a low success rate is better than fighting for nothing.
  • Give away and share as much as you can. Ultimately a microbusiness can only compete on a global level if people believe in it as much as you do; it's not about getting customers. It's about building a team.

Oh, and I also broke up some of the BME/extreme sections into proper subsections — keep in mind many of those haven't been really edited in something like five years so they were (are) still very fetal. Time to grow up… There are some that should probably die too, but I'm more of a builder than a killer I think.


PS. Anyone interested in hosting two wayward Americans in Montreal for a couple nights? They're housebroken, and I've just cured one of them of his drinking problem… Well… for now anyway.


Brief excerpt from an online conversation:

>do you feel that there aren't that many roads
>left untravelled?

I'm not sure that's relevant. I'm not looking for untravelled roads; I'm looking for roads I enjoy.

>as in, your a punk not because you fit in
>with that mentality to so speak, but because
>there really isn't anywhere left, stylistically,
>that you can go to. no new, small group of
>outcasts left. thus leaving no room for suprise
>to the general public, because technically,
>they've seen this before.

Anyway who's simply seeking to be an outcast has got issues. I just want to be me. I don't care if I'm different or not.

The final statement is actually a paraphrase from Ryan of BMEbooks who'd said (I hope I'm quoting this right), “I never wanted to be different; I just wanted to be me.”

Wow Shannon, that's really annoying! What is it, 1997 on Geocities? Retroweb is NOT cool!

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