The Surly Blogger

Posted by Stropp on March 17, 2007

It’s been quite a week.

I spent around a thousand dollars this week on my system. A few weeks ago I mentioned that my wireless router just completely up and died. So on Thursday night I went out and bought a new one. In fact I bought one that would also act as a storage server so that I could centralise some of my important files on my home network. So then, because I had bought a router that acted as a storage server, I had to buy some storage didn’t I? So here I am with a DLink DL-624S and a Western Digital 500GB MyBook sitting on my desk. And wait, that’s not all. I also bought myself a HP Printer/Scanner/Fax. Unfortunately, the router will only act as a print server and won’t handle the other functions, so I might just have to connect it up to my PC instead of running the router as a print server. Oh Well.

Not only that, my nephews fourth birthday was on Friday so doting Uncle Stropp spent more than a few quid there too. Walking down the aisles of the local Toys R Us made me extremely jealous. Man, do four year olds have it good these days. There’s all sorts of cool stuff for kids. RC Vehicles abound. All sorts of robotic dinosaurs, gizmos, and other things. I want to be four again!

On to my main news, I have started a new blog called The Surly Blogger. When I started Stropp’s World, I intended to make it a quality resource for World of Warcraft players. (I hope you’ve found it as such.) Over the last six months, it’s evolved a bit and the focus has expanded to more than just WoW. That’s just the beginning as far as I’m concerned. However, I also started it as an experiment to see if what I was reading about Blogs as income generators was true. I think it is.

So today I have started The Surly Blogger as a continuation of that experiment. I’m implementing a lot of what I’ve learned here at Stropp’s World, and hopefully within a few months have a resource that will provide a lot of value to its readers. My first post lays out one of the most important life lessons that anyone can learn. You need to have a go to achieve anything in life. Have a look if you’re interested. There is still a lot of work to do on the site. Stropp’s World has sort of evolved with bits changing over time; I expect The Surly Blogger to go through a similar process.

So yeah. It’s been a good week, even if I still have to get a bit of hardware working properly.

Now back to your regularly scheduled programming.

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