It's been a few years since I've had a blog up and running. When we lived in SF, I had a fun blog, with all sorts of random goodies... but I killed that in late 2003. Too much was happening, not much of it good in our lives... and it just felt pointless. We didn't know where life was going to take us, and I was flat-out tired. So I killed that account. It's probably in the internet wilderness somewhere, but hopefully the server's been scrubbed.
So. How do you re-start a bloglife?
I used to be one of the most flippin' bleeding-edge techies -- but in the past few years, I've basically let go of the reins. Figure this:
We had an Osborne Portable Computer in our house in 1983 -- Wordstar, baby!
We were AOL 1.0 users -- with a free overhead account due to my husband's association with a big PC Magazine Kahuna.
I started working in Tech in San Francisco/Silicon Valley in 1992 -- right as things were heating up. We did a big project for Oracle -- a rap song called "The Record-Breaking Oracle" -- when they first broke $1M in quarterly sales. Woo hoo!
My first true Internet gig was at the Seattle start-up, Spry, that created "Internet in a Box" - the first consumer packaging of the Mosaic browser. (I remember the sales rep in the cube next to me, all surfer-twang the say Compuserve bought Spry - "Dooooode! It's Awwwwwesum! We're gonna make gnarly millllllions, bro!")
I'm a Microsoft Corporation Redmond Washington HQ alum -- last gig there was running a marketing team that was part of the big Windows 2000 Launch Juggernaut.
Sick of the rain in Seattle, and left to run marketing at another tech startup, a digital rights management security software co. based in the UK.
Then, back in California, I did a stint as Managing Editor of Reports for Anne Holland at MarketingSherpa, which I still consider to be one of the finest publishers of marketing case studies and practical information, even though Anne Holland is more batshit than Osama Bin Laden.
But that was then.
Now, I'm in Denver, Colorado -- the "West Midwest" -- and it's been a weird ride since getting here.
So, this blog is to be... whatever the heck it will be. Read it, or not -- I'm going to write it, and that's enough for me.
