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		<title>The Age of Things</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2007 05:30:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You may or may not have noticed that the dates on these posts seem a little off. At least in the sense that a blog started in 2007 has posts from years before that. Well, I sometimes like to think I&#8217;ve been blogging in my head for decades now, but short of that grand delusion&#8230;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You may or may not have noticed that the dates on these posts seem a little off. At least in the sense that a blog started in 2007 has posts from years before that.  Well, I sometimes like to think I&#8217;ve been blogging in my head for decades now, but short of that grand delusion of mine &#8211; I&#8217;m just trying to make posts relevant to when I scribbled down the idea. A sort of ideagraphical journey through time &amp; space.</p>
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		<title>What is this thing?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2007 04:43:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, it&#8217;s only taken me 4 years to get to this first entry, but I guess that&#8217;s better than nothing. Yes, I came up with the idea 4 years ago to have a site to showcase all of the extra ideas I came up with that I had little enthusiasm, or little energy to do&#8230;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Okay, it&#8217;s only taken me 4 years to get to this first entry, but I guess that&#8217;s better than nothing.</p>
<p>Yes, I came up with the idea 4 years ago to have a site to showcase all of the extra ideas I came up with that I had little enthusiasm, or little energy to do anything with.</p>
<p>That doesn&#8217;t mean these are bad ideas. Doesn&#8217;t even mean they&#8217;ve been &#8220;used.&#8221; But rather it just means they are of a type or a direction, a size or of a nature that I don&#8217;t feel like I wanted to persue.</p>
<p>I have followed so many different ideas in so many different directions since I started this web thing back in 1994 (<a href="http://www.electricalsocket.com">The Electrical Socket</a>). I often wonder how I had so much time back then and how I managed to dabble in so many things.  Much of that is due to growing older, getting a life (and a job) as well as some of my sites growing in size where they really do need a lot of time and energy to maintain.</p>
<p>Some I have parted with (<a href="http://new.babynameindex.com">The New Baby Name Index</a>) which I gave to a friend to maintain, others I have shut down.  But most still exist. Some in fragile forms (<a href="http://www.woolgatherers.org">The Tribe of Woolgatherers</a>), others at increasingly humungous sizes (<a href="http://www.firmlist.com">The Firm List</a>).</p>
<p>But what to do with all of the other ideas? Well, I&#8217;ll attempt to capture them here.</p>
<p>Why? Well, perhaps you&#8217;ll find some inspiration? Maybe you&#8217;ll take one of these ideas I didn&#8217;t have time for and make it come to life? I sure hope so.</p>
<p>And how about you write me when you do, so I can come and check it out?</p>
<p>Thanks,<br />
Matte</p>
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