Day 1

In starting this blog I have several subjects I to cover. First, I love politics. I have my own views, but don’t feel you can read this is your views differ. I believe I can learn something from everyone. Second, I am starting a new website called SkillBinder.com. The purpose of the website it to provide a how to do encyclopedia verses the very popular know about websites like wikipedia.com. I will be discussing my strategies to make the website successful, successful in revenue and visits. I believe in education and want to provide a place where anyone can learn and be recognized for their knowledge. Third, I consider myself a hobby jumper. I define this as jumping from one hobby to another, learning as much as I can in between. Lastly, I may sometime cover miscellaneous thoughts and ideas like my favorite restaurant, a hard day or quantum theory (yes I find it fascinating).

This 2008 republican primary election season is turning out to be interesting. We have Rudy who seems to have more skeletons in his closet then Dracula. He was running high in the polls and favored to win (in some circles). Now he is struggling to win in Florida where it seems this New York constituency spend the primary election season. Then we have Thompson who hasn’t been able to pull in the votes or execute and effective campaign. I was too young to remember Nixon as President, but maybe he was right to call Thompson dumb. It seems there is a large group of new men that believe McCain is too old. Although it my be true, shouldn’t they be focusing on the fact that he is a liberal in a republicans race. Last, and my favorite, Mitt Romney is leading the pack. He is seems to be using his years of experience turning around business to turn around his campaign. After second place in Iowa and New Hampshire, he has now won in Wyoming, Michigan and Nevada (this is pronounced nə-ˈva-də) . It’s still too early to tell who will win but I am pulling for Romney.

www.Skillbinder.com Coming soon! My first ideas about the website came to me as I was laying in bed late one night. I had been thinking for some time about creating a website / web 2.0 / web application that I could create. I wanted an idea that fit me, my like and dislikes. Laying there in bed it came to me. I love to learn new things, whether it’s changing the oil in my truck or laying tile or one of D.A. Benton’s 22 vital traits. Why don’t I create a website where everyone can learn a new skill and share their skills with others? It would need to have static and multimedia that gives people the opportunity to learn by reading, seeing and doing. I also wanted to include a way for learners to test their new knowledge and be ranked against other users according to their skill levels. To make the site work I also need to get users to contribute their knowledge. I have several ideas about this but I am still working on it. At this point, I have coded about 50% of the project. I am using asp.net in c#. I am also using MySQL as the database. This has been a challenge. MySQL .Net plug-in is not fully functional yet. Gurrr, this has caused more than one headache. I will hopefully have the website online and mostly functional January 26, 2008.