Weblogism

Interview With Myself (2)

Q. Hiya. As you’re about to go on holidays, I thought it was just about time for a second talk with you. Do you mind?

A. Not at all. Just keep an eye on the watch, my train won’t wait for me.

Q. Fair enough. Well, seb, how’s it going?

A. Better. I can’t really tell you what’s going on right now in my life – you know, I have to protect my privacy, that sort of things. But things are going fine. As you’ve just said, I’m about to go on holidays. Time to relax. To read.

Q. And how is Weblogism?

A. Not bad. Still developments going on, actually, so I don’t really have time to really write in here. But time will come. Anyway, there are quite a few people coming around, that’s good.

Q. Oh. I thought you’d said you didn’t look at statistics.

A. (embarrassed) Well… Eeeh, yes I do. But that’s too see how people found my site. I must admit “JBoss”, “getelementbyid” and “Vincent Connare” are quite successful. About Mr. Connare, funny how times have changed: popularity can now be measured only by looking at the number of times a name is typed in in Google… (he smiles)

Q. Who are you really, seb? What do you do?

A. I’m a J2EE consultant, even though I’m playing with Swing at the moment and worked with .Net for quite a while as well.

Q. So, why your interest in web design?

A. I’ve always been fascinated by typesetting. I’ve done my fair share of LaTeX in the past, even translating documents for the docfr project – I wonder how they get on, by the way. I’m also quite fond of typography and read books about it – Oh, man, remembering I’ve forgotten to put the picture of that book online. Web designing is just yet another way of expressing this passion. An easy way, that is.

Q. What about writing? Are you still doing a bit of that

A. I’m afraid I don’t. But you’re right, I should think of writing again. You’ll be the first informed should that happen.

Q. Delighted to hear that.

A. (nodding)

Q. What are the next steps for Weblogism?

A. First of all, I must finish that book-listing interface, which works fine but cannot be modified yet. I plan to put also a gallery online, write a few articles about web-designing, and then make a real site of this place – not only a blog. But I don’t see that happening any time soon. Too much to do with Le Sauna already.

Q. I think I’d better let you go and catch your train…

A. Thanks. See you soon, I guess.¶