1:54 pm
I am becoming increasingly cynical about the web being a valid medium for expression. On one hand, I do
find truly absorbing sites which enlighten and amuse me to no end. On the other hand, since it is a big
fad to have a web page, EVERYONE HAS ONE. The idea is that everyone can express themselves over the web,
sort of like a massive public access TV show. Only most people don't put the time and effort into it that is
necessary to actually SAY anything. The fact of the existance of their page is more important (to them) than
anything they actually put into it. A while ago I was thinking about the difference between content and substance.
Well, now I'm thinking about the difference between presence and content. Web pages are like T-shirts now.
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Oh. I might have forgot to say this. For the past 3 weeks I have been working 12-15 hour days. This is because
of my dual job here at GST Internet. Originally, I was hired as technical support. I answered phone calls from
people who were "having trouble getting connected to the internet" (the number one thing that people say when I
asked them how I could help them). I did my job fairly well, and on the side, I did this web page. Note that the
main page and most of the other pages except these log files and the ones about my co workers have not been updated
since their original creation, and are thus done in the style of a newbie. This does not bother me, they seem clear enough.
I would like to update them someday. Probably upon the moving of this page to a server in my new office. Yep. My new
office as technical web administrator. (I REALLY hate to say "webmaster") For those 3 weeks I would do web work in the
mornings from 9 am, then switch over to tech support at 1. during the last part of those weeks, my tech support shift
was changed to 3-midnight. Those were the 15 hour days. Anyway, my tech support duties are no more. Now I spend my time
creating, maintaining, and troubleshooting web sites. I also program in Perl, Javascript, and Java. I know Assembly and
C/C++ also, but I don't use them much in this job. (I also do shell scripting, and a little bit of awk and sed, but thats
pretty necessary if you use UNIX much.) Oh yeah, and I configure web servers sometimes. Apache and Netscape Enterprise.
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