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Happy New Year from RKNet

Giania — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 06:43:45 +0000

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Hi friends!

It’s 1am on New Year’s Day for your (mostly) faithful author, gentle readers.

It snowed, no one called, my hair underwent a dramatic re-tealing, I had some wild nightmares, and I’ve got a few ideas in mind for the New Year and the blog!

My New Year’s List (so far)

Start a magickal journal
Dream record more
Diet journal (see also Just Bento January Bento Challenge)
Organize collections (books, films, dust bunnies, etc.)
Purge the unnecessary (knickknacks, old clothes, stuff I don’t need in general)
Yoga (i.e. stretching routine, meditative relaxation time, etc)
Use organizational tools to support good habits
Get into the makeup routine
Extend aggressive budgeting rules to food, clothes, vice and miscellaneous spending.

And some older goals I set for myself that still need doing (updated comments in parenthesis):

Wake up early enough in the morning to do what I want to do, not just what I have to do.
Eat breakfast, plan for lunch (see bento challenge above, too)
Drink once a week or less. (already getting there)
Find a phystical activity that I will stick to. (the yoga thing I hope)
Cut coffee intake. (less of an issue than it was when I wrote that)
Recognize and learn to manage my triggers to unhealthy actions. (ties in with restructuring my diet habits and various vices)
Read more (doing better on that!)
Blog more (no comment)
~~Develop a schedule for bill payment~~ (BOOM! done on that one. heck yeah!)
Stay motivated to make lunches and dinners. (seriously, the food thing. gotta stay on it.)
~~Find out what smells weird in the fridge!!~~ (an admittedly recurring issue.)
Save up for “splurge stuff”. (ties in with that budgeting of non-bill items.)
Go through my closet, find different “target weight” outfits and put them somewhere obvious. (probably not an easy thing to do since my weight has effected my wardrobe in strange ways. the idea here is to motivate myself every day to do the right things.)
Do more organizational tasks, cleaning, making lists, STICKING to lists. (can’t argue with that.)

What do you want to do in 2009? Share your list (or link to your list) in the comments!

Note: The diet and magickal journals may be completely seperate from RKNet, or at least run in an area seperate from the main blog, for those who simply aren’t interested. I am also investigating my theme options to see if a more magazine-like style might be a good way to provide you, gentle readers, with a more approachable and fun RKNet for 2009 and beyond. If you have suggestions for the site, by all means comment or write me! I love outside perspective and all criticism is helpful even if it’s not strictly “positive”.

I want to thank everyone for reading, for commenting, for subscribing to the feed, and for generally being awesome. I hope this coming arbitrary Gregorian time period is as fun, as enlightening, as painless, and as unpredictable as possible.

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Weiser Books Link Goodness or Why You Should Be Subscribed to the Feed

Giania — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 22:11:10 +0000

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Those who are already subscribed to the (feedburner) RSS feed may have noticed a particularly large link dump post, brimful of esoteric whatnots and occult herbal do-dads.

Those who aren’t, I’d like to direct your attention to the great big purple box in the upper right hand corner. Exclusive to the feed is my del.icio.us activity in daily digest posts. “But why do I want to know what you do on the internet?” you might be asking yourself. A valid question indeed, but bear in mind the original purpose of “blogging” as described by the guy credited with inventing the blog is to share links to things one likes or wants to share.

The items from Saturday’s link dump post all share a common tag: wcghm.

This tag stands for White Coagulate of Greater Homunculi Matter. Not really. It stands for Weiser Concise Guide to Herbal Magick. Judith Hawkins-Tillirson provides an easy to grasp initiation to the study of herbal correspondences to planetary archetypes and the Qabbalah as set up through (Uncle Al) Crowley’s 777 and related works with a goal of improving one’s magickal practices through the use of plants.

Those already intimately familiar with 777 may find this slightly redundant, but for beginners or the generally curious it is a terrific reference. I picked it up at my local Barnes & Noble for about 12$ and it was more than worth every penny. Hawkins-Tillirson provides more than just a condensed understanding of the herbal information available in 777, she cites many different sources and at times provides differing interpretations from that classic magickal guide.

The wcghm del.icio.us tag provides to you nearly all the web-based references cited in the book. You can get the inside scoop on stuff like this by subscribing to the RKNet feed, or you can go add me to your del.icio.us network and add your del.icio.us network feed to your reader of choice. You can do that by going to your “Network” page in del.icio.us – delicious.com/network/yourusername – and scrolling down to the bottom of the page, there will be a link labeled “RSS feed for these Bookmarks” which will give you your custom network-specific feed.

Bonus: If you’re an Amazon Prime member (you can always do the free month trial!) you can get it for $11 with no shipping. There are also some used (and overstock I guess?) copies out there for between 3$-7$ if you’re curious but low on pocket money. And of course, there’s always your local library. As Judith mentions herself in the book, do not underestimate the valuable service that interlibrary loaning provides!

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2 New Plugins Today

Giania — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:34:09 +0000

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Because I’ve caught a serious case of Twitter fever, I’ve added the TwitterTools plugin, which will daily dump my meaningless tweets (from my personal twitter, not the RKNet twitter) into a single post. The benefit of this is that you, gentle readers, will be privvy to the exciting (HA) life of yours truly, and get the added benefit of all the neat links that I tweet, but neglect to del.icio.us and totally don’t bother blogging about.

The other plugin is more for me, and doesn’t have nearly as much of a direct effect on the content of this blog (yet). I finally got around to adding the WPStats plugin and I honestly don’t know how I went without it for so long. Granted, the stats provided by FeedBurner are pretty good, but I need something more directly related to my actual site traffic. While additions like Clickheat are fun, they aren’t necessarily the strongest measure of visitors and activity. In a text-based medium, you’ve got to know what text brings people to you, and what text keeps them there.

Pretty excited about the whole thing. You should be too! It ultimately means I can monitor to see what makes you the visitors the most happy, and increase the volume on those subjects to 11.

P.S. How do the google ads look? Obtrusive? Not awesome enough? Discuss. I’m hoping that they will eventually start actually trending towards being “contextual” so there can be some halfway decent sponsors in the mix. I also have designs on cleaning this place up (a lot) and re-appealing to Project Wonderful’s review staff so I can then allow real humans to display fun ads for their neat stuff on my blog.

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Feedburner Feed Update

Giania — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 01:20:05 +0000

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If anyone is subscribed to the straight up site RSS feed of RKNet, I’d encourage you to hit the RSS link in the header of the site for the Feedburner feed, because I just added:

Flickr automatic updates – which I promise to try and make interesting!
del.icio.us automatic updates – a once-per-day summary of what kind of bookmarking I’ve been doing. That way all the lurking SEOs can learn my sources and super-special secrets without having to check too many things or stalk me on Twitter! (Note: This last statement is fueled by paranoia, and by the fact that I feel like I’m getting a lot of friendings by random SEO people lately. What gives?)

Good stuff!