Personal Websites

What is the purpose of a personal website?

Now, don't go reading any tone into that. I am not asking a question made rhetorical by the tone of my voice. I am not saying that there is no purpose, not in the least. This is a question that I have been asking myself a lot lately. If you check the links to the right, you will find four webpages that are all mine, Dragonarmour, Aude Khatru, RW.Reid and Sir Conor. These are all on Earthlink, where I get 10MB for each email address, and yes, I have four. Together, I consider them my website, even though I don't have a unique domain name or anything like that.

I did have a domain name once, and you might be able to guess it. I had a dispute with the host, and they would not release the domain name, so....rather than getting it moved to another host, someone else snapped it up, probably in the hope that I would pay them for it. Fat Chance!! I doubt anyone else really wants it, at least, over the last 8 or so years, no one has ever put up a page.

Now, funny thing, but that thought distracted me. I went and checked out that old url of mine, and funny thing, there was a site. Of course it was a site by a company that sells domain names, and they were offering that name. Well, I offered them a dollar. We'll see what happens.

But, back to the personal website.

Some will have a specific reason for putting up a personal website. For me originally, it was as part of my business. I had hoped to increase sales by having a website. It did not really help, too little, too late, and so I tried to morph it into a personal website, since I had started using part of the business name as an online handle. But, I never really got the site off the ground. The problem is that I did not really know what to do with it, which brings me back to the original question.

What is the purpose of a personal website, or more personally, what should I do with my website. I have thought of a few ideas, but then I encountered problems...well, not so much problems, as excuses why I shouldn't bother. So, let me run through a few of the ideas.

• Information about my favorite band.
  Well, I probably will put up something, but my favorite band did it's best work over 30 years ago, and I don't really care that much about following the band now. What I really want to do is listen to the music.
  
• Monty Python info
  Yes, I am a big Pythonhead, but once again, I don't so much want to follow the members, as to just watch the shows.
  
• Looney Tunes
  More of the same, see above.
  
• Armor
  Well, I suppose that I could, and probably will put something together here. I have already put up some of the pictures of the armor I have made.
  Red Dragon Armoury
  I will put up more of my own, as I find more pictures, and time allows. I suppose I could look around for armor weblinks and include them on the site.

But, I keep thinking there should be more.

My New Toy

Well, it really isn't my new toy, so much as my wife's old toy. She bought this a while back, and never used it much. I always wanted one, as you can see from my last post, and so when she said she was thinking about listing it on Craig's List, I asked if I could use it long enough to figure out if I want it. I haven't finished that trial period, but considering that I was fairly sure I wanted one anyway, it seems pretty obvious to me.

Now I look like a true computer maniac at home, with my desktop, portable, umpc and pda all around me. I think I will try to take a picture of me surrounded by PCs. More computing power than a NASA moon launch. Too bad I don't really do anything with it.

It has a 600MHz processor and a 40GB hard drive. It only came with 1GB of RAM, but then I discovered something funny. I saw a video on how to upgrade the RAM, and when I went looking I found that it uses a standard SoDIMM (portable computer memory). When I checked the RAM on my Dell XPS M1530, I found that it used the same RAM (Samsung of course) only my XPS has two 4GB sticks. So, I popped one out of my Dell and into the Q, and put the Q memory into my Dell. Both still work fine, and now I just have to think if I want to actually purchase some RAM and get my portable back to 4GB.

I think that I am going to try Windows 7 on this Q. I am already running it on my XPS and on a test system at work.

Well, I think that is all for the moment, but watch for me to return here more often in the future.