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My original blog - I have moved to http://shannonclark.wordpress.com so this remains only as an archive.
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Searching for the Moon
by Shannon Clark
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Friday, January 31, 2003
Visual Studio Conference Visual Basic, Visual C , SQL Server Conference
The future of SQL Server from MS - worth paying attention to as it is one of the better (if expensive) products from Microsoft. Something I probably should spend more time playing with and developing on top of.
1/31/2003 10:38:00 AM
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Monday, January 27, 2003
AlwaysOn Home
Yet another online community site.
I will visit - not sure how often - it is seemingly closed vs. open - and less open to contribution than either Ryze or Ecademy, so in return the reward for me to contribute is far lesser.
But Contribute I probably will - look for me there.
1/27/2003 05:38:00 PM
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Friday, January 24, 2003
raelity bytes
something I need to look into, it's in Perl (not my first choice, but not my last either) and would likely mean I have move from this site... but might offer me some serious advantages (and I could always hack together a redirector for this site).
1/24/2003 12:14:00 PM
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Wednesday, January 15, 2003
The Work of Edward Tufte and Graphics Press
If you are in LA tomorrow or Friday - I'd encourage you to try to get to Edward Tufte's tours of his own show. I'm very sorry I can't be there myself.
Edward Tufte is one of the premier (perhaps the) thinkers on Information presentation. One of the best classes I ever took was his one day course.
1/15/2003 08:26:00 PM
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A proposal for pricing digital music
Something I wrote this afternoon - a rough outline to be sure, but an idea I have had for a possible new model as an alternative to the current ones for digital rights management/licensing etc.
If you read this and think it is interesting - please give me feedback - comments here, comments on Ecademy, or emails - I'm curious if my idea has any merit.
1/15/2003 06:35:00 PM
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Slashdot | Carping Over Creative Commons
Serious issue, but a very mixed discussion this issue in the Slashdot comments.
1/15/2003 03:05:00 PM
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Tuesday, January 14, 2003
Inc Printer-Friendly: The 10 Secrets of a Master Networker
One of the best articles on Networking I have ever read (referred to me by people at Ecademy). Keith Ferrazzi (CEO of YaYa) is the consumate power networker.
Puts my own personal network way to shame, and my own personal goal of talking to 5 new people a day in perspective. He apparently makes over 40 calls a day!
One of the best suggestions he makes, beyond the basic concept of networking not as a quid pro quo, but as a sense of karma, is to keep "pinging" people - keep in touch with people.
Definitely one aspect I am not perfect about doing - but need to get back in the habit of doing.
So, my personal goal for the rest of the month, beyond keeping in touch with current clients and current prospects, is to get back in touch with as many people as I can.
As well, he has a concept of "aspirational" contacts - people he wants to know. I need to do something similar, and then work my own networking to get myself in touch with them!
1/14/2003 10:35:00 AM
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Tuesday, January 07, 2003
home: Wrap-up 2002: Bubble Aftermath II, A New Dawn
Chris Rollyson is one of the really cool people I have had the pleasure of meeting and knowing the past few years here in Chicago. The above link is his end of year wrap up for 2002 - very well written and insightful.
1/07/2003 05:30:00 PM
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Monday, January 06, 2003
New Year's Goals
some big, some small
1. Pay myself. This means, grow my business to the point past I just cover my own costs, but to the point where I actually start getting a return on my investment of the past three years of my life.
2. Graduate from College. I made a pact with a friend, we would attend each graduation ceremony at the University of Chicago until the one we ourselves were participating in. As the ceremonies will get longer and longer, and more and more boring each quarter, this is some incentive for me to get down to campus, find a kindly professor to grad a BA thesis, pay some late fees at the library, and otherwise beg and plead with department chairs and deans of students to finally get a degree. Not that it will do much directly for my career (see point one) but it will mark an end of one part of my life and the beginning of a new one.
3. Clean, organize, and furnish my apartment. Point one being important and helpful here - but not all of it, some of it is just time, effort, and some creativity in figuring out what stays, where it goes,a nd what I can get rid off - what needs to be hidden in the closets and what can be useful out of them. It will mean spending money, potentially lots of it, but should be well worth it in the end.
4. Loose some weight. I am gradually doing this by simply eating less, watching what I eat, and eating less often, but I probably should find some other ways of accelerating this - probably more regular exercise (my 15+ miles of walking a week is not bad for my legs, need something that will help with my stomach however - which is where my fat and weight gain is, not sure if a stationary cycle would do this, perhaps a rowing machine, probably weight lifting but I don't have a partner to work out with)
5. Not end the year having spent the entire year single. I'm not seeking to get married and have kids, or neccessarily find the love of my life - just not to spend the entire year completely single - as I have spent the past four years, and all but a few months of the previous 8 years. Certainly points 1, 3 and 4 should help here - and who knows, perhaps point 2 as well - certainly hanging around a college campus would be better than being home alone in terms of meeting people.
6. Finish at least one of my writing projects - whether it is a book or a screenplay haven't yet fully decided, but I want to finish one of them. Related to this, organize my writing and start a serious process of submitting my poems, short stories, and other writings to appropriate places for publication.
My output of writing has been growing each year, however more and more of it has been non-fiction. Personal entries such as this blog, other online blogs, and participation in various online communities. One plus - in at least one of those they have promised to buy my first novel when I sell it... so that's good at least. And fairly uniformly I have been told that my posts are intelligent, informative, and people do in fact read them - so that too is good.
Not sure how many people in fact read this blog - haven't been keeping it as uptodate as I used to, but it still seems that about 5-6 people a day look at it, how many are returning from day to day I'm not sure.
(you are always welcome to leave comments here or to drop me a line - love to hear from people who read what I write)
1/06/2003 06:43:00 PM
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Sunday, January 05, 2003
TheWB.com - Talk
Okay besides comments... a message board for the show... *sigh*, guess I know where I'll be for the upcoming months...
1/05/2003 07:14:00 PM
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More on reunions
Okay. Now I have to brace myself for months of televised coverage of my high school.
Yup, OPRFHS (I'm class of 1991) - I knew about this months ago, but now that the show is about to be broadcast I've looked into it.
Turns out at least a few of the people involved I know (not well) - and some were, in fact, members of my class, the class of 1991 not the class of 1992. Not sure why they were selected (okay, Maya is perhaps one of the most beautiful woman who attended my high school - clearly that probably played a part).
It is interesting to look at the WB discussion boards - many of the people posting are people I know (I'm guessing) at least from the names they are using and ways in which they are writing.
Very strange. Quite surreal.
Not sure if i like or dislike this brush with fame. But I do know that I plan on taping the shows, all of them, and watching it. Very odd behavior for me - not my usual behavior at all, but I do feel this strange curiousity about my class - and more so, about how my school will be viewed and covered in the popular media in the months to come (if at all).
1/05/2003 06:55:00 PM
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TheWB.com
Okay. Life is surreal.
This is my High School. People I know. The people who were juniors when I was a senior.
At least one girl I had a really serious crush on.
Really seriously strange.
1/05/2003 06:45:00 PM
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Friday, January 03, 2003
ambiguous
Something that echoes conversations that I have been having on multiple groups of late - how tech can indeed provide a lot of value and impact even in the "third world".
1/03/2003 02:12:00 PM
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Lessons in book promotion pay off for young self-published author
Hmmm. Guess this is encouraging. Though I must say I have mixed feelings about it - but do appreciate the success from hard work that was involved.
1/03/2003 01:58:00 PM
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Thursday, January 02, 2003
The new year
Yesterday was a very good day.
Today, not sure yet - starting off crazed as I expected - clients calls started at 9:30 (well some even earlier but I missed those luckily) - looks like it will be a long and crazy day. Hopefully money will be showing up in the mail to make it all worthwhile. At the moment however my morning is putting out fires on multiple fronts - fun fun fun.
If my 1st was any indication however, the new year will be a very good one.
1/02/2003 11:42:00 AM
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