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Welcome to my 
ZSpace Page

The unadulterated truth about this page is if I was more creative it would be more exciting - my apologies. It takes someone better attuned to design and with more clever ideas to put them to better use.

I hope, however, that this page at least provides some benefit and entertainment! I also hope that you will do better with your own ZSpace page, and send me an invitation to take a look.

For that matter, if you have ideas for things that I should add - or remove - please let me know. And can you spot and identify all the song lyrics I have embedded in this page?

In figuring out how to do this page, I found the help videos particularly enlightening. Try them.

 

Software Frenzy

The ZCom upgrade which is now more or less an unending process - at least for a time - as we bring to fruition the underlying potential of the site - keeps me up nights. Big software projects bubble stress. Dealing with them is like fighting the ocean from under a wave. You can't pause to catch your breath. You can't just scream, "okay, ocean, I have had enough, what else can you show me." The ocean doesn't hear, and neither does the endless stream of problems upgrades pummel you with.

Okay, upgrade, I have had enough - it doesn't work. Software upgrades are better than caffeine for staying up nights. 

To find out what we are up to with the site, and make suggestions, just use the relevant left menu entries on the top page of ZNet. And hey, the left menus are very powerful - all over the site. They typically give you nearly instant access to filtered displays of content. On personal pages, like this one, people can make their own. If you check the left menu on this page you will see that I have done just that, including embedding a whole book, a memoir I wrote not long ago, in the links of that menu. Try it!

 

Venezuala On My Mind

Yet, as central to my sleeplessness as the upgrade is, and keeping the site operating not to mention continually placing new content, it is not foremost in tying my mind in knots.

Trumping the upgrade, trumping maintaining the site each day, trumping my own writing and other projects, trumping everything, is instead a project I have been working on non stop, for nearly two years. It is to do a comprehensive interview with President Hugo Chavez in Caracas including pursuing diverse ideas and proposals.

Getting lots of first hand time with anyone is a test, as you all know - but getting it with someone as busy as President Chavez, taking into account, as well, all the barriers one must surmount to even get a reply, is blisteringly difficult.

You make headway, then you fall back. You make more headway, you fall back again. I console myself, or more accurately whip myself into persistence by noting good things rarely come easy.

Hopefully we will see. While I haven't written about my most recent trip to Venezuela, including meeting with the President while there, you can see a few photos in one of my photo albums, linked from elsewhere on this page.

Enjoy!