Tag: somjuan.com

SomJuan.com

I think I found a use for SomJuan.com again. It’s an idea stemming off that older idea for an anonymous blogging service. The idea is a collaborative storytelling project in the form of a wiki blog. Meaning it would still be presented like a blog, in reverse chronological order, but the entries would be editable by anyone.

This is the sort of thing that would take a fair sized community to work, so I don’t know exactly how it would be pulled off, and the code to do such a thing doesn’t exactly exist yet (though I think I can cobble something out of WP). Just an idea for now, not sure how serious I am about doing it, but if it worked it could be very cool.

Building the Archive

Today I went back and added my blog posts from somjuan.com/old. So now my posts from February 2005 to June 2006 are on this blog. They’ve all been dated correctly, and I’m slowly adding the original comments to those posts.

Transitions

Dreamscape by Michael Fath
[audio:http://www.michaelfath.com/Dreamscape.mp3]

So, I posted a roadmap for somjuan.com a month or so back, which outlined where that site would be heading. Needless to say, I’m no where near on track with that.
The reason for that happens to be the reason for this post. I currently have another project, which I can’t really talk about. I’m starting a business with some friends, and it has been taking precedence in my mind for some time now, and will soon be taking precedence in my actions. Since most of my free time is going to be aimed at this business, somjuan.com won’t be worked on in a regular schedule. Consider that project suspended until my business venture succeeds or fails.
That isn’t to say I’m not going to be working on it at all. I’ll likely get to work on it quite a bit, but not in a schedule which I could stick by. Might as well check back from time to time to see if anything has changed.
I will of course mention any progress here.

SomJuan.com

Dance of the Freek by Keller Williams:
[audio:http://kellerwilliams.net/mp3/Dance.Of.The.Freek.mp3]

So I’ve brought the main somjuan.com site back online, and I plan on starting serious work on it in the coming weeks.

Here is the roadmap:

    1. Finish all basic coding by the end of September
    2. Put the site into open Alpha in October. This means that people will be able to sign up, and start making content, but the site will not be stable yet, and should be expected to act weirdly, drop data, etc.
    3. The site will go into open Beta in Feb, and will be stable enough for permanent use. The only change is that things will continue to keep changing until Mayish.
    4. Site goes live. Hopefully.

Damn, thats a long time from now…

Some other changes I’ve made (to this site). My Flickr photos are now all accessable from john.paganetti.com/flickr. Fun.
Also, I’ve included a thumbnail of my webcam in the sidebar of this blog. You can click it to see the larger image. I’m trying to find a better location for the camera…right now its pretty boring.

Stay tuned…

Imported Entries

Every entry on this blog prior to this one was imported by hand from the old somjuan.com blogs.

Because it was imported by hand, there may be some errors in the date, but the content is exactly as it appeared on the old site.

All Beter

Everything is working again, but there are no upgrades…
I think the code I was working with is too buggy to try and get to work on this site, so I’ll do all the testing and tweaking on another site, and see if I get get it to work here after.
eh

2nd Semester

Well, second semester finally kinda started for me. I had a bumpy start switching majors and choosing classes, but its all worked out, like it somehow always does.

Overall, this semester is looking 100 times better than the first. Not only do I have teachers who are interesting and passionate about what they teach, but the subjects they are teaching are interesting. Good combination. There is one exception, English. My professor is the most straitlaced and dull peron I have met to date. I think the class has the potential to be interesting, but I know it will never achieve it.

Eh.

PagCam is back online. Always fun.

Couple things about the site in general. If you haven’t noticed, I’ve removed Google’s AdSense ads from the site. They weren’t bringing in any money, and they made the pages load slower, so byebye. Also, as I mentioned in the shoutbox, I made the word of the moment link to a google search for that word(s). This is mainly because I ended up doing this anyway with weird words or phrases, just to see what came up. And being the lazy person I am, I decided to make my life easier with code. w00t

End transmission.

Finals Week

If you’re curious why there have been little/no updates to somjuan, this should only be until Friday. This is finals week at UConn, and much of my time is devoted to studying (I need to learn math tomorrow).

In the meantime, if you keep submitting articles, they’ll keep getting posted (I do notice and appreciate those).

Pity me, and all fellow students who have to wade through this mess.

SomWear

Ah, finally.

I’ve been hardcore slacking on these things, but its finally gonna happen.

I’ll be selling them from this site.
I’ll be accepting PayPal, credit cards (through PayPal), and cash (only in a face to face transaction).

The advantage of ordering online is its first come first serve for sizes. I’ve got 4 Mediums, buncha larges, and 4 XLs coming my way. So if you order online, you make my life easier, and get a better chance of getting the size you want (because the two extremes may sell out).

I don’t know what shipping charges will be yet, but I’ll be sure to let you all know. Of course the advantage is most of you know me personally, so if you’d like to save some cash, I can just get it to you the next time I see you.

As for the price, I’m not sure yet, I’ll run the numbers. I think its going to be in the area of $15, but I’ll probably drop the price on the first day or something like that.

So next on the list is the Buh hat. That so isn’t going to be coming anytime soon. Hopefully before Easter?

I gotta get on top of this.