Joomla madness and web frontiers

I can hardly find any decent FREE templates out there for Joomla 1.5. I’ve found a couple. I’m working with one now just because it’s the best I found free. Not the best color scheme in the world but I’m not all that particular at the moment.

K-2 Extension for Joomla I found a great extension for Joomla called K-2 and this has been instrumental in my thinking for partitioning the web site based on users and content. You can find the K-2 folks HERE. If anyone else knows of great Joomla plug-ins, themes, modules, etc. please let me know. I’m having a lot of fun with this side of myself. This is the geek programmer in me that never really has gone away. I keep trying to tell him he can’t live here any more and he keeps coming back and setting up shop in the back room.

What do I want to be when I grow up?

Well that’s a question I’ve been asking as I am working on various ways to present myself over the web. My primarily method is via YouTube but now I’m thinking I want to do this via my online web page. I have an online store now where I hope to engage in a profitable hobby that will teach me many lessons. I have a web hosting platform to provide web pages and services to people. So I have many interests, both personal and professional. How do you project all that out to the world and still maintain some sense of privacy? Is that still possible today?

Philanthropy

I do plan to donate proceeds from my profits from my online store and web hosting business to cancer related charities.  First I need to make some profits!  You guys have to help with that right?

Mandy is still planning to run her marathon for leukemia.  Wow I can’t tell you how impressed I am with that girl!  You need to go to her PAGE and sponsor her — dig in a little, do without a latte or something, and drop $5 or $10 or whatever on her page.  We need to get her to her goal at the very least!  If you want to meet Mandy, go HERE and watch her video.

I continue to support TJ and his family.  TJ is still collecting hats so if you have some hats, please send them over to TJ.  You can get all the info you need on his web site.  .

Going back to work

Those of you that know me know that I’ve been unemployed for about 8 weeks now. I frankly looked at this time as a very welcome vacation. I had the means to survive and so I’ve looked for work, polished up the old resume, talked to various and sundry people about what I want to be when I grow up and pursued many different thought lines in terms of future jobs and opportunities. Of course, in the long run, I end up back to the beginning. Back to what I am good at and that is project management. So on Tuesday September 7, 2009 I will be back in the corporate grind and loving every minute (OK, maybe not EVERY minute) of it.

Back to school?

How many of you are students, either High School or College or life long learners, and are headed back to school about this time? I keep thinking it’s time for me to take some formal classes but I’m having so much fun with life lessons it’s hard to find time for structured classes.

South Tube for the win?

I am seriously considering attending South Tube again this year. Actually, to be precise, this year will be South Tube 3 and I’ve attended South Tube 1 but missed #2. I am hoping my new work schedule will still allow me to take some time to play. I look forward to seeing old friends and potentially making new friends while there. If you are headed to South Tube and would like to hook up with me, drop me a note at my email address shown here. I’ll be checking that more often now.

I think that’s enough rambling for one night. I’m working steadily on this page and hope to have more to offer in the near future. Feel free to sign up if you like. I will eventually be opening the site to “guest editors” and “guest article writers” and other folks who want to be part of a small community I hope to build here at some point. I am still working on site design and in Joomla terms “sections” and “categories” and extended functionality offered by the K2 modules.

Tim aka UpDownMostly

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