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Procrastination is Key

On October 11, 2001, I was spending a valuable minute browsing the classifieds on Photo.net. Aside from my ravenous consumption of photographic hardware, I also gravitate towards most things computer related. So when I stumbled across an ad which was selling 1GB of website space for seemingly pennies, I couldn't resist. (It's a rather odd circumstance, but nearly the same time, I also expressed the same emotion when I stumbled across a brand new Sony 53" HDTV for what seemed like pennies-on- the-dollar. Sadly, I reacted in a similar fashion - I bought it.)

For quite a while, this website was one of the items on my life's to-do list, but I was hesitating to build it until after I moved into my new house. This is because I am anticipating having a dedicated (relatively) high-speed connection to the internet wherein I could browse, build, and browse some more until I pass out. However, at the time (mid-October 2001) my house was predicted to be two months late in delivery. So what's a guy to do? I capitalized on the 1GB offer.

Thus, on October 30th, after a short flurry of emails and a PayPal transaction, I established a web hosting agreement. My disk allocation confirmation and passwords arrived shortly thereafter, at which point, a profound question was then glaring at me on my very blank computer monitor: Now What???

I had a website. But with no content.

This wouldn't have posed that big a problem, if it weren't for an insatiable level of curiosity and an overachieving ego. Place me in a room with a few slabs of wood and a toolbox, come back in a few hours, and you'd most likely find a rather disheveled inidividual with the makings of a failed but spiritied attempt to build a stool. But I do try.

Hence, the practical beginning of finally building cianperez.com. In the past 30 days, I've managed to finalize my overall design, set up my directory structure, configure a few photo collections, and publish a few wordy opinions which were actually my responses to questions in my online camera users group.

Fortunately, I tend to work fairly effectively under pressure. So, as I sit here on November 30th, 2001, one day before my public belching into the digital bullhorn of cyberworld, I'm wondering if I had been working on this site the last six months or so, like a good webmaster should have, would this site be that much further along? Hmm. I guess we'll have to wait six months and then revisit this topic. Stay tuned...