Shanti’s Dispatches

Finally got my blog back online. My MovableType database crapped out on me. Luckily, I had just backed up all my data.

Don’t tell Ben & Mena, but I was actually running quite a few mini-blogs on there… and I hadn’t registered yet. I was meaning to, honest, but having the entire database corrupted with no sane way to get back my data w/o reinstalling was the last straw.

Wordpress is quite slick, and since Gabriel and I are using it in our new top secret blogging project, I figured that I should “eat my own dog food” and use it on my personal blog.

I’m using the advanced Beta version of WordPress (1.3) - released 11/19/04, and haven’t run into a noticeable bug yet.

Taking a cue from hugh, I wanted to add some kind of “flava” to the site to spice it up a bit. Hugh’s got his drawings on business cards, but since I can’t draw, and don’t have a scanner at the moment - it’s going to have to be “big fucking quoatations” instead. Hopefully I’ll post a new one every few days or so… They could be from me (just random shit I make up on the fly), or quotes from readers, famous people, unknown people, dead people, living people, etc. You get the idea. The one thing I can’t stand is cheese, so I’ll try to avoid the overly sappy motivational type quotes.

I’ve also been reading Guy Kawasaki’s Art of the Start (free download). He says to use big fucking fonts (not in those words, exactly), when you’re pitching your business plan. So… that’s kind of where the idea for came from.

The first one was:
(the effect is much better when you see it in a thirty point font, but I won’t do that to you guys out there in RSS readers)

They will all laugh at you.

Just fucking deal.

To see the latest one (if you’re reading from an RSS reader), you’ll just have to cruise on over to sablog.com.

You can bookmark this, digg this or check the cosmos