OWEE
An Obsession with Food has freed me to write on any number of food-related topics and experiment with different writing styles. But the title constrains me as well: It permits little in the way of non-food thoughts.
So, I've started a new blog. An Obsession with Everything Else will be more eclectic, with shorter posts in general. OWEE exists for the same reason OWF does: to give me a place to write on a regular basis. It just lets me talk about, well, everything else. As I told my friend Phil, every other blogger gets to share every iota of the dreary trivia in their lives, why shouldn't I?
OWF fans needn't worry. Most of my energy will still go into this blog. But for those who want to see another side of me, check out OWEE (pronounced "Ow-ee"). The site still needs work, and it will probably be my playground for fiddling with style sheets, logos, and other things that will migrate over to this site. I also need to figure out a better solution for my derrickschneider.com domain. Right now, I've told directNIC to redirect that domain to the OWEE site, but it does so by enclosing everything in a frame. This may not make sense to everyone, but the upshot is that once you're on OWEE, every link you click will not change the URL in your title bar. It will appear that the entire Internet is contained by www.derrickschneider.com. This is lame, but I suspect the fix involves a long phone call with EarthLink.
So stop by, look around, revisit from time to time, or ignore it. I won't expect you to keep up, I promise. For those who use RSS readers, you can currently find the feed at http://www.obsessionwithfood.com/everything_else/atom.xml, a byproduct of my domain-name issues.
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