So, here’s the deal. My ambitions include public speaking (about personal development) and making a living just by being one of the online ‘good guys’. I’m not talking about the good guys that give with one hand and take with the other – I’m talking about building something here that is really useful to a lot of people.

I’m 47 and I have a mess of life experiences and a whole lot of technical and programming ‘head stuff’ to share. Up until now I’ve been putting blogs up with the primary intention of making money from them. Big mistake. I’m not saying that it isn’t possible to make money from ‘niche’ blogs – what I am saying is that it just isn’t ‘me’. I enjoy doing things that have a lot more purpose than just making money.

Crikey – what legacy would you rather leave? Would you want people saying ‘oh yeah, he made a s@*t load of money’ or ‘he really made a difference – we’re going to miss him’. I know what I’d rather and as the years go by and the clock keeps ticking I figure I better hurry up and do something useful!

So… I’m going to experiment on this blog with the Thesis theme. It seems that it has way more options than anything else out there, but there’s a learning curve. Specifically you need to be fairly good with CSS. It’s never been a strong point, though I’ve been using CSS quite a bit over the past year, so I guess now is as good a time as any to start learning.

So if you happen to drop by and the whole blog is upside down… fear not! It’s just me ‘sperimentin’