I was volunteering at the library the other day, for a 'Family Game Day'. I'm sure I've spoken of these before, but this time I was in the kitchen the whole time, mixing lemonade and making popcorn and pouring pretzels and handing them all out to little kids and big kids alike. (Have you no shame, other volunteers?? (Just kidding, I ate some too)) Now if only someone would give me a job doing this, (You make mixing lemonade AN ARTFORM!) I'd have it made.

But that's enough about that. My attentions are still being drawn primarily by chess, (I discovered my weakness: I undervalue pawns) but now there's a side-distraction in PHP and XHTML and Java and anything else used as a standard in web design... It all started with wanting a PGN parser/viewer in PHP, so that I could share my chess games without the help of chess.com. But now it's evolved to the point where I'm re-learning PHP.

I know I've done it before, no need to tell me. I recently have been wanting a domain name instead of just a subdomain, but I don't really need one... Everything I could possibly want to do is provided by freehostia for free. And while they're the best free host I've found, it looks like their actual hosting services are... Expensive. I'd have to compare it with more than I did, though.

This has all sort of come to a climax with me considering building a resource for chess... A mirror for the University of Pittsburgh's FTP site, plus links and, if I end up creating on, an open source PGN viewer in PHP... Not that anyone will look at or use it.

I've also been wondering at the point of combining a blog with a social site... Although, to me Livejournal has never seemed as much like a blog as a live journal. I tend to use it as a way to keep in touch with people I'd like to keep in touch with. But, as my journal isn't friends only, it's also a place for random strangers to gather bits of information and put it in little notebooks, and then come visit me... Not that this has happened.

A blog, to my mind, tends more to be for news and such. So if I had a blog on my site, it would be about the site itself, or about the subject of the site.