I started the day at the interiders chat with Theresa Crawford and a bunch of other names I have heard on the email digests I subscribe to. We were talking about stories, and how much we liked them, and how personal they made our sites. T is doing a revamp of the interider site, and we talked about what would make the site a place more people wanted to come and more wanted to come back.
I kept track of today only after the fact, I admit. As I was sitting with my first cigarette of the day, over coffee in my daughter's attic apartment, I told her my mind was doing its hamster wheel thing. I ran downstairs to my task list but dropped at least several very good ideas on the way down.
So here's what I did with my day:
Handicraft sales (one of our fund raising initiatives)
IM chat with Sobina in Nepal about the change purses I'm selling for Worlds Touch. Figuring out how to run a handicrafts business.
Also, spoke with a woman whose org sells wood products and pillows from the rain forest in Peru on how to set up the importing part of it. She's emailing me with some web sites she's consulted. She has a for-profit company who brought in the handicrafts in their containers. Nice little flea-riding-camel operation, wonder if we could find something non-heinous from Nepal. In fact, I spent a half hour or so looking at Fair Trade Principles. I feel more strongly about this than I do about FLOSS, even though, as I've said before, when I'm thinner and have given up smoking and am 10 pounds lighter, I'm going into FLOSS in a big way.
I did a book cover for a friend who's writing a book about user acceptance testing. James Windle at Lulu.com. Watch that space. I helped edit the book a little.
I'm doing a mailing list for the Medical Auxiliary Alliance. Doctor's mailing list.
I spent an hour with my son Raphael's job coach.
I like the WorldKit map thingy I got from the Global eRiders' site. I like the way they've done the biographies at Digital Divide. In fact, I just spent the last hour putting every damn country in the world I've visited into my own bio, and let me tell you THAT was tedious.
I loved the high level discussion of spam fighters at the riders-tech listserv.
No Spider Solitaire yet today, but the day's not over.
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