Woot! This is my first post from my new iPod touch. I will be using it a lot when I can’t get to my computer for blogging.

Next weekend, I will be at the Chicagoland Dance Festival and this will come in handy for posting quick updates as the event progresses.

I promise a more detailed review of the device once I get to a full keyboard!

I found a handy plugin called Fotobook which interfaces between Wordpress* and Facebook**.  I give the plugin my login info for Facebook and it pulls my photo galleries onto this site, each on their own page.

What that means is that now all of you who may want to see those pictues but don’t have facebook accounts can do so easily.  Just click the “Photo Album” link at the top of the site and pick an album to look at.

It’s so easy, even grandma can see them!  Oh wait…she doesn’t have the internets***!

*What I use to run my blogs

**What every body between the ages of 14 and 40 uses to kill time. I’m not linking to Facebook because they frankly have plenty of links as it is.

***Nothing but porn and something about the trojans!

I’ve started several blogs and sites in my day.  Out of sheer boredom before my freshman year of college, I tried it.  I tried another one where I could write about something that interested me, technology.  I currently run one jointly with a friend, What’sWithLife, where we write about financial tips, fitness advice, and life musings.

There are two sides to the act, or rather art of blogging:

• What most people think of as blogging - the online diary of attention-starved, depressed for no good reason, white kids.
• What I’ve learned it can be - a tool for providing interesting and useful content to readers while providing a steady, substantial income to those who invest the time and effort.

All the Emo kids who ruin the image of blogging need to take a long, deep look in the mirror and realize that just about every problem they have is in their head. Stop giving the world anti-blogging fodder.

Blogging for income is a demanding job.  You can’t dump your brain onto a page, post it on the internet, and expect it to be worth millions.  Revenue blogging means writing top-notch content that is useful and relevant to readers.  That takes a lot of time, research, and planning.

No, I don’t want THIS blog to become either of the two I just mentioned.  I think I finally found what I was looking for though:

• Somewhere to dump my “internal dialogue,” as a friend of mine would say.

I want this site to be a place for the random, interesting, and often inappropriate thoughts and events I encounter.  I don’t intend to get rich off it, I don’t plan on having millions of readers, and I honestly expect this will turn into nothing more than a retrospective tool I can use for some internal reflection later down the road.

Laugh if you dare, cry if you must.  If you enjoy it, leave a comment.  If you’re offended, too bad.  Otherwise, stay tuned!