Who am I?

No, Really? What makes me different than the 42 billion million other wanna be someone bloggers? As of now? Not to much, and to be honest… I don’t really care. I don’t write here for anyone per se, I kind of use it (currently and historically) as a bookmarking or link sharing site for anything I find interesting.

But that’s wrong. No really… It is. The web is full of junk. Full of crap… similar to this post. It’s irrelevant to literally everyone out there. No joke. No one actually cares. To me this is fine because… I don’t care too much about this site. But to the other blogs that are exactly like this: I’m bored. Constantly running across people’s diaries is a waste of what this amazing series of  1’s and 0’s can do. I mean there is nothing wrong with expressing your ideas… but most of it is the same old stuff. There is nothing original. I am guilty of this. I’ll just repost something that’s interesting. But that shouldn’t be what Blogs, or Websites are for. That’s twitter. Seriously… that is what twitter does… and it does it well! Blogs are for content, ORIGINAL content… stop wasting space, sign up for twitter/tumbler/friendfeed and buy a diary to kill trees and publish something only when it’s worthy of being published.

More recently I’ve grown tired of users around the web. I’m sorry for not being tolerant. Because of amazing, amazing, web apps like wordpress and anything Google does, people seem to think that everything is simple. When it’s not… they complain! Or feel angry when a legitimate member of the community wont go completely out of his* way to do something for them for free. This might be something that others have noticed, but as I learn more I find it annoying. The internet is full of knowledge(once you get past blogs on twilight and the jonas brothers), but you have to try in order pick it up. If you don’t want to try… then you should probably pay someone. I’m cutting this rant off, and skipping to my point. *”If only defeating sexism were as easy as throwing in an occasional he/she, she, her or hers. I use the masculine pronouns merely as a shortcut… …Don’t look for sexism where none exists” – Guy Kawasaki

So what? I can only control a minute portion of the web. And I’ve controlled it wrong. For that I’m sorry, I apologize, and here is what I propose:

1. All posts on my site categorized as “uncategorized” are showed only as titles with a few exceptions:
   1. The latest post created (first post shown) will always be displayed in a summary view.
   2. Any “uncategorized” post with comments will be displayed in the summary view to encourage discussion.
   3. Viewing the “uncategorized” category will show all “uncategorized” posts in summary view.
2. I will post original content that does (but isn’t limited to) the following:
   1. Informs readers of something new. Could be like News, or could be an explanation of something commonly mis-understood.
   2. Inspires readers, or it will be my intention to inspire readers. (I can’t be held responsible if they do or don’t get inspired)
   3. Teaches someone something.
3. I will attempt to make every post of the highest quality I can provide at that time.
4. I will only write posts I feel are worth reading (with the exception of “uncategorized posts).

What are the posts going to be like then? That will entirely depend on What I’m interested in.

What Am I Interested In?

That’ll change. Or at least I’m assuming it’ll change. As of right now I can see four major things I will be posting about.

• Web Design
  • Why? Cause I love it. I like looking at trends, I like playing around in Photoshop. I like hacking together little pointless sites.
• Web Development
  • I see most of this being quick hacks for wordpress.
  • I also think I’ll cover basic html, javascript, and css
  • I’ll hopefully be posting tutorials on how to do things, that I had to figure out myself somewhere… so that the next person can implement it quickly
• Start-up Businesses
  • Highlights of some cool start ups or businesses that I may have found
  • Ideas for businesses or new business plans
• The mobile tech industry
• I see this as being the new computing industry. This may just be news, It may be more… not too sure
• General thought provoking knowledge.
  • I guess that covers a lot

If you’re looking for the random videos, or stupid pictures, or pointless rants… They’ll be here… they just wont be prominent.

Where is this Site going?

As always… I don’t know. This site is going where I take it. Right now it’s going with my interests. Maybe one day I’ll be important enough for the domain “brennanmceachran.com” to be valuable to me in more than just a bloggy sort of way.

More than anything I want to encourage discussion. Not only does it give me feed back, and make me feel good, it answers a lot of questions I may have about you, or questions someone else may be thinking. OH, and ontop of that the comment system looks super sweet… so… use it!

What do you think? What do YOU want to see on the site? Where do YOU want it to go? Leave a comment.

Pay Brennan . com [visit]

This is an idea that started out with my father and I playing on Domai.nr possibly one of the coolest domain apps out there. I was discussing the idea of writing some tutorials on and helping some kids out on the forums, and hoping to get some money through a donate button. At the time I was playing around with the jQuery library, and decided that I wanted to make something super simple, but not ugly… like the standard “donate now” paypal button.

We came up with

Well, what you see is what you get. I registered some single purpose domains that I thought were useful or funny. PayBrennan.com, FeedBrennan.com and HireBrennan.com the latter being what would be classified as useful. Only PayBrennan is finished and working. I’m looking at finding a way of getting direct pizza orders or something for FeedBrennan.

The Revamp!

Some of the closer Brennan followers may have seen the first version of Paybrennan.com. I can’t say I loved it, even when I first finished it. Usually I end up liking the things I finish, then a week later getting sick of seeing them, and hating them. In this particular case, I wasn’t necessarily proud of it at launch. It was really a test of coding more than design. However… I felt I needed it to be “branded” with the other brennan sites. I really liked how McEachran.ca turned out, so much so that it became the basis for the “2.0″ revamp of this very site.

Once the other two sites looked similar, I decided that was going to be my “brand” identity. So naturally Paybrennan should look similar…

…and here we are! Check it out (put in a test payment ?) www.paybrennan.com

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