Posted by Shane Becker on
<p>does anyone remember that turd? basically <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_Hour_(comics)" rel="bookmark">Zero Hour</a> was supposed to fix all the crazy continuity that poor editing / managing / writing for decades had created. all kinds of alternate futures, pasts, presents. ugh.</p>
<p><cite>Wikipedia</cite> had this to say:</p>
<blockquote cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_Hour_(comics)">
<p>It promised to do for the inconsistent future timelines of the DC Universe what Crisis had done for its parallel worlds: unify them into a new one.</p>
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<p>well, good luck with that.</p>
<p>but this isn't about that. this is about a different kind of <a href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/zero_hour" rel="bookmark">zero hour</a>. about a month and a half ago, i wrote about my new email policy which i called an <a href="http://veganstraightedge.com/articles/2006/6/1/1/email-zero-hour/" rel="bookmark me">email zero hour</a>. basically, restarting the clock on my inbox.</p>
<p>i completely caught up. and i've vowed to keep up by acting on all new mail within 3 days. also i no longer store everything on my machine. i've been popping mail down from <a href="http://veganstraightedge.com/articles/2006/6/3/2/obfuscated-email-address/" rel="bookmark"> my gmail account</a>, while leaving an archive of it on the google servers. so i was just eating up tons and tons of hard disk by keeping mail that i never really ever went back to and that i already had a copy of somewhere else. pretty silly, right?</p>
<p>i reply faster now. i delete locally now. i've started clearing out the archives, too. its just boat loads of crap in there that i have no idea why i think i'd ever need it.</p>
<p>all along while doing that i had planned on doing a weblog zero hour, too. there are always these little things that i wanna blog about that i see on the webba or that we do or that i hear someone say, but i don't feel right blogging those little things when i have all these bigger more important things that i've been planning on writing about forever. <a href="http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0108037/" rel="bookmark">FOR. EV. ER.</a></p>
<p>so this is the start of the Weblog Zero Hour. here's a teaser of the shape of posts to come.</p>
<ul>
<li>copy what you like</li>
<li>the answer to <a href="http://veganstraightedge.com/articles/2006/6/26/2/the-hint-718-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-song-and-a-backward-k/" rel="bookmark me">the hint</a>
</li> <li>everything burns bright when its new</li> <li>1000 number paintings and the million dollar website</li> <li>elegant universe</li> <li>gmail help straight dissing me</li> <li>ev, i♥4</li> <li>social networks of the future? look no further than…</li> <li>salt lake city planetarium</li> <li>ev-sb date recaps</li> <li>seattle mariners baseball game against the giants</li> <li>$20 parking</li> <li>i guarengodamnfuckentee it</li> <li>tags, categories, wordpress and technorati</li> <li>re: vk. i’m a big dumb dummy</li> <li>my dad is a dead beat</li> <li>emily stapzka. i’m sorry</li> <li>a whole series of very public apoligies</li> <li>good time. bad times. haunt me. looking back.</li> <li>timone was a good dog</li> <li>godzilla was too</li> <li>my friends are my family. they’ve saved my life many times over.</li> <li>trial reunion show trip (yes, i’m still planning on finishing this)</li> <li>sxsw goodies</li> <li>the problems i have, catholic guilt and penance</li> <li>new theme</li> <li>kern hoodie</li> <li>comiccon recap</li> <li>tufte, new project, listyourlist and dashboards</li> <li>bulletproofing</li> <li>upcoming project redesign</li> <li>batting cage</li> </ul>
<p>looks like i've got my work cut out for me. so i'm off...</p>
<p>Currently playing in iTunes: <em>All Falls Down</em> by Kanye West</p>