Unusual for me I know, but I thought I’d try to bring a little culture to the blog.
So, without further ado, here’s a spot of Japanese poetry…
Fluttering around,
Pausing only for a while,
Then to something new.
OK, it’s a pretty poor haiku, but it gets my recent frame of mind across nicely. My focus has been suffering lately, lots of little things to occupy time; the blog, the iPhone, the MacBook, even reviewing stuff on DooYoo, but nothing substantial. I was working on the principle of working on lots of little things in the hope that something may stick and give me a sizeable target worth shooting for – the next big thing, I suppose.
The last big thing was, I suppose, bimbogami, which really was all consuming for a while. For any new readers here (does anyone actually read this?) bimbogami is my puzzle site. Bimbogami was built from scratch with all-original puzzles, ably assisted by my partner in crime hotblack, when he’s not taking photos of something. There are two ‘main’ seasons of 40 puzzles – some of which are not for the faint-hearted and two ‘fun’ seasons of song lyrics (musigami) and movie quotes (movigami). If you haven’t already you really should try it, there’s about 2000 people registered to have a go at time of writing – not many manage to finish.
The thing is there’s lots more mileage in bimbogami, there’s a resaonable amount of questions and other puzzle concepts in the bag for a season 3 and easily a few more seasons on the back of musi- and movigami. I suppose the prolem is that it’s just not ‘new’ anymore. So I need something else, and maybe come back to that fleetingly, in future butterfly moments.
So, in the search of the next big thing, I’ve thought through a few things but keep going back to an idea I came up with a while ago. I won’t spill the beans just yet, as Monarch-syndrome could easily strike again before I get anywhere with it. Suffice to say it’s music-based.
Thinking I could perhaps go for an off the shelf package I installed Joomla! CMS to see if it would do what I wanted it to do. And the answer is a resounding ‘possibly, but with a fair bit of hacking and slashing’ I suspect, so I’m going to resort to the hand-crafted approach – surprise!
Re Joomla! The thought struck me on whether it’s a good idea to have punctuation mark in your company or product name. Personally, I don’t think so, why?
- You can’t get a URL with a punctuation mark in it.
- It looks silly in the middle of a sentence, and
- It makes me think of Wham!
Watch this space…
