Moved to wafitz.net

I have now moved this blog over to wafitz.net, look for updates there.

Egosurfing

Happy New Year!

Hey I got a new domain: www.wafitz.net. I haven't done anything with it yet but I intend to start moving 'operations' over there. This blog, maybe a static webcam, geocaching related stuff. And I'm working on a weekly(?) podcast with my brother in law - we're just ironing out the technicalities.

Speaking of domains and online activity. Ever since I did my first egosurf (way back when we were all surfing web 1.0 with 56k dialup, Google was a sound a baby would make, email was the fastest way to communicate and AOL was a formidable giant of the web) this website is what drew in the top results. The image of the little girl has been "picture of the week" for the last 300 weeks. The whole website has never changed since it's been up and yet it still gets significant ranking when I google my name.

Of all the daft forum posts, stupid blogs and other nonsense I've done online, I'd rather anyone see those than to mistake fitzweb.org for one of my achievements. I am probably not helping by linking to it, it's probably bad form to even discuss it like this, but it's something that's bothered and haunted me for years so I felt maybe it's time to clear up any confusion.

Other Blogs...

For anyone who's interested, I have a few other blogs that ocassionally update. They can be seen by looking at my profile or just follow the links here...

Saturday Morning Coffee - started after I got married to document our wedding trip and honeymoon.
Incredible Humans - My first attempt at creative blogging. I was just playing with filters in Gimp one day and found a way to turn a photo into a comic panel effect. Then I heard about Lewis Gordon Pugh, and sort of came up with this idea.
Stories Cut Short - My second foray into creative writing. Kind of a shortcut to writing novels - a bit of a "what if" collection. As in, what if the greatest stories never got told because the protagonist did something stupid, or got killed, or didn't do something at all?

I also can be found at Identi.ca, the open-source alternative to Twitter. Though I may re-open my twitter account some time.

Wes Fitzpatrick Attempts to Lasso the Hydra

I've enjoyed my experimentations with social media so far, but have found it's gotten rather out of hand and beyond my control. It's important to have an online presence, but there needs to be some kind of focus which draws it all in.

Contrary to popular theory, there are quite a few Wes Fitzpatricks out there on the interwebs and I don't want the casual googler to become confused. I have no idea what the other Wes Fitzpatricks will make of this blog, particularly if it rises in search ranking. Not my intention of course, my intention is only to collate the bits that belong to me and of course reduce confusion.

This is the first post, I started it late and I'm a little tired. There's a lot more I want to say and a lot more coherently, so I'm not sure if this post will stay.