Welcome to My Newly Built Home Online

Dec 13 2011

The design started in my head Spring 2010.

It started out like this:

Then I went on a couple URL buying sprees (click here and here).

The core and guts were built over a long weekend, and while it looks simple, it was not. I changed hosting providers at the same time, too. There was a lot happening, and this was a few weeks into having just moved, and living out of my trunk.

Various stages of development.

Before being ported over to KeriBlog.com, the new site was built under this URL, HAHA:

The Canadian Explorer was migrated over and converted from SquareSpace to WordPress, something I always wanted but didn’t think I’d ever get… for those of you not living full time in nerd world, that is a really big deal. Thanks Vito! If you’re lucky, he’ll help you too.

It’s the most beautful thing I’ve practically ever seen, do you even know HOW long I’ve been looking at this in my head.

So I documented its creation.

It’s really coming along, click to see :) —–> KeriBlog.com

First Post from my iPhone

Dec 2 2011

This is where I type out the post.

Let’s bold these three words. Easy.

What of I use quote?

Ahhh I put the text in here. Then I’ll keep typing to make this nice and long as to really see how a quote is displayed.

~~What will this do? Strike through im guessing~~

This one will be italic obviously

Wait there’s more?! Oh wow this WordPress app is amazing.

We’ve got underline, list, ordered list and a more tag, nice nice.

Let’s add a link. I’ll link up this. Phft easy.

Tags, categories, it’s all right here.

Kay that’s all that, now let’s add two photos, one I take now and one from my existing ones…

Oh this is amazing! Just add the text in between like this.

I have feeling that second pic will be far too large, let’s publish and see.

What a pleasure that was. I feel like I was living in olden times on my blackberry

What the app looks like.

I Broke my Back Blogging

Oct 13 2011

Go ahead and laugh, I would.

Here’s the posture post I’m talking about, and here’s my favourite way to sit and concentrate, hand-over-mouth.

Casie helped re-create the scene of the incident:

Last time this happened, last summer, my back fixed itself… I was over at Casie’s, being lippy with a lot of gestures and over-dramatics, and it popped itself back into place. I’m hoping that’s what happens again.

I’d pledge here some giant exercise plan but meh, let’s be realistic. I did go to the physio this morning though, I’m on it.

I meant what I said above, about being slowed down being good for me… I tweeted that yesterday, actually I crushed yesterday YA buddy.

Also I did my best self-manicure ever… because I couldn’t move around and ruin them.

Let’s look back to happier, bouncier times, please think of me like this internet, send healing thoughts hahasigh.

Expanded my URL Collection

Sep 14 2011

I don’t collect anything, never have. In fact, I’m currently in super-purge-mode, I’ll show you later this week.

URLs though, that’s a weakness. I now have 40!

Behold:

Come ON how good is that top one?! So good I almost didn’t tell you about it.

I’ve been at this for years. I keep a list on my phone. Sometimes when I want to zone out, I sit running seraches, see if they’re available

This is what I bought last time.

A big thanks for Hover for enabling my borderline obsession.

$15/year, privacy included, which is a good deal. Plus when you call, someone in downtown Toronto picks up. Hopefully for you Mike picks up. This is Mike. Ha, hi Mike! It’s still funny :|

The Foundation Has to be Strong

Aug 31 2011

Meet Martin, my business lawyer. We’ve been a team since 2007.

We meet regularly, he shakes his head at my stories of prospecting-for-money-through-blogging, reminds me good partnering practices, and is awesomely old-school.

Ross Rumbell Professional Corporation

I take the legal side to what I’m doing here seriously. All my music is royalty-free, I’m sensitive to if people are okay with being put online (see Exploring a Hell Hole for example), and do you ever see photos of children around here? It’s a foundation, why build it any other way than super strong.