I’m toying with the idea of just using this blog to write my own daily journal of various thoughts and things to remember. Then starting a forum that everyone else can discuss upcoming activities on. The forum I’m toying with is pretty neat visually and pretty easy to navigate once you’ve played with it for 5-10 minutes. Check out the test forum HERE and let me know what you think of it.

If you don’t know what RSS is, you should probably check it out. I feel that I am addicted to news headlines. RssReader is the program I use to put all the headlines into one place. Let me know what you think if you try it.

I found this article at Popular Science – How 2.0

5 Things you can do with Google’s Gmail that make it the best free e-mail service
1 Join an exclusive club
Gmail is still in beta, so you’ll need an invitation from a member to open an account. Don’t know one? Visit the Gmail Invite Spooler (isnoop.net/gmail) to score one of the spare invites donated by current Gmailers.
2 Use it for storage
With your account’s massive two gigabytes of space, you can mail yourself file attachments up to 10 megabytes each, or just download the Gmail Drive shell extension (viksoe.dk ) to mount your account like a hard drive and drag files into it.
3 Label everything
While most e-mail services force you to file everything in folders, Gmail gives you labels. The difference: A message can have multiple labels. You can even set up filters to automatically assign labels upon arrival.
4 Search, don’t destroy
No surprise: Gmail has superior search ability baked right in. So it encourages you to throw all your e-mail into one big pile and search by sender, subject, date or content to pull up the messages you want. You can even use complex search strings that combine categories, such as “from:Jon label:family in:anywhere before:2005/5/21.”
5 Give it a new look
Finding Gmail’s design aesthetic a bit austere? Use Firefox and “skin” the site however you please with a custom style sheet. Download new styles from persistent.info, or learn CSS (style sheets for Web pages) and tweak the site’s appearance any way you like.
—Merlin Mann

If you’d like a Gmail account, let me know and I’ll send you an invite. Send me the email address you’d like the invite sent to, as well as your first & last name HERE.

I finally posted the new web site template. The hardest part was editing the images to include the words that I wanted.
A friend from work gave me a free pro account from FlickR.com. It makes it SO easy to post pictures and links to my pictures on the site and on the blog. I’ll probably place a picture on the blog when I have a new group of pictures from now on.
Is there anything I’m forgetting to include on the site?

The site is coming together nicely. I have more work to do to get it presentable, but the unveiling’s getting closer.
If there’s any info you’d like me to post on the site, let me know.

I’m figuring out how to change the images on the toolbars of the new template for the main site. It should look pretty good once I get it up and running.
The image collection is pretty large and it looks like a mountain of work. Hopefully, it’s not as hard as I’m making it out to be.

I’ve recently acquired access to hundreds of great web templates. I’m sure that at least one of them should satisfy my thirst for just the right template for kunefke.us. Anyway, it might take a week or two, but I plan to have the correct template running as soon as I can.

I’m still not sure how to design the site. I am probably going to use a template from the web, but I’m still not sure which to use or how to edit different types of sites. I’m making the effort to get it done and learn how to do it, but right now it’s getting confusing (getting SO much information in such a short time).
I’m happy that I figured out, and have the blog up and running, though. At least this lets me vent a little bit. Why couldn’t everyone think the same way and come up with a uniform template that would work for everything you could possibly do on the web? It doesn’t seem like I’m asking a lot, does it?