As a day it has not dissapointed in dissapoiuntment.

So you wake up to a phone call from a place where you put in your resume looking for a job...only to have it be a wrong number.

The day went rapidly downhill from there. At least I braced for it.

I've decided to put myself on a diet. I'm really not going on a no-carbs or no-sugar or whatever diet, but more counting calories. I'm REALLY fat, could stand to lose a few pounds, and groceries are expensive. Eat less - lose weight - be a miser. Win-win-win situation.

I've always believe you can eat whatever the hell you want, you just shouldn't eat a lot of it. Like I usually do. I'm not a big believer in that last part, but then, you don't get a figure like mine by eating light....

As a day it has not dissapointed in dissapoiuntment.

So you wake up to a phone call from a place where you put in your resume looking for a job...only to have it be a wrong number.

The day went rapidly downhill from there. At least I braced for it.

I've decided to put myself on a diet. I'm really not going on a no-carbs or no-sugar or whatever diet, but more counting calories. I'm REALLY fat, could stand to lose a few pounds, and groceries are expensive. Eat less - lose weight - be a miser. Win-win-win situation.

I've always believe you can eat whatever the hell you want, you just shouldn't eat a lot of it. Like I usually do. I'm not a big believer in that last part, but then, you don't get a figure like mine by eating light....

A long time ago, on an Internet far far away.

My god, when did it get to be Thursday? My god, when did it get to be DECEMBER?!

Once upon a time, about 1995 or 6 or so, I was Queen of Usenet. At least in the gaming newsgroups, although I was pretty well respected all around. A reader of mine made a fan page for me, and, lo, did I have my first webpage. Now I had nothing to do with it, but it was nice to have. :)

Eventually, I started my own site (really just a mirror of the fan site) and when the fan site dissapeared, I started some upkeep of my own. The web was fairly new and sparse, and there weren't too many places to go. The site was updated by stealing code from other pages on the webn, and searching my cache for nice background images (I know I stole Ed Boon's (the lead programmer of Mortal Kombat) background images more than once, which is probably why he never invited me for tea).

I had about six favorite places I went to often and added them to a small section at the bottom of the page. I posted up an image that said "YOU HAVE FOUND THE TREASURES OF JENN DOLARI!" and had the six links in a 32x32 icon. And so began the Click-O-Rama.

I've always had a bad habit of going to a page once or twice, and bookmarking it for later. The six turned into ten, then twenty, then got so large I had to categorize them into groups. By 2001, when I last updated the Click-O-Rama, I had over 600 links on there. The C-O-R was actually pretty well visited (I got 40,000 visits when anything over 1,000 was amazing) because of the ecclectic mix of links and whatnot. It was never really ever meant to be a feature, just an incredibly large bookmark file that was publicly available. I was my own personal Internet Portal - LOTS of folks going through there.

But in 2000, with the move to Austin, the job shuffle, the layoff, and the shuffling of cities in 2001, I didn't have any time to update the site. But I kept bookmarking the sites I found and enjoyed. I kept meaning to update the Click O Rama, but in 2004, after Trinoc, I realized I'd collected WAY too many links to update the site...and now older links were going stale or breaking all together, and I had no time to go back and check all 600 links. It was my sad duty, but I closed down the Click-O-Rama. I still had CS and AWFW.

Zoom forward to today. I'm going through all my backups, and find a "Favorites" file from just a week or two ago. I look in it, and it has the "Unorganized" folder in there, which were ALL the links I had planned to put in the C-O-R, including the once SINCE 2004 I was still bookmarking out of force of habit.

The count? 898 BOOKMARKS.

Wow, there are more "pending" links than there were actual links when I killed the C-O-R.

And now...with auto updaters, and automated checking...I'm wondering if I could (or even if I SHOULD) rebuild that file again. A New and Improved Click-O-Rama with Over 1300 links of random crap! Think anyone would still go to it? :)

The maintenance, though. I think I'll pass. Maybe I'll just put up a list of links like I have for my daily visits ( http://www.dolari.org/genericversion.htm )

Versions of the C-O-R:

1996 - August 1997 - The original fan pages on tmok.com and all the pages from eden.com are gone with the sands of time....
August 1997 - February 1999 - http://web.archive.org/web/19990224184746/www.dragondata.com/~dolari/ (no images ((all links were under those icons in "Local Pages" (and notice the Closetspace icon in 1997!)))
February 1999 - May 2001 - http://web.archive.org/web/20010526082358/home.austin.rr.com/jenn1/clickorama.htm (No images)
June 2001 - February 2002 - http://www.dolari.org/pub/cor2001.png (795x3411 image)
February - October 2002 - http://www.dolari.org/pub/cor2002.png (775x2962 image)
November 2002-2004 - http://www.dolari.org/pub/cor2004.png (520x1053 image (all links were under those icons))

It's funny...but with all the ISPs I've used over the years, I still have a shell account with tmok.com (going on ten years!) and, depite a small break from late 2000 to early 2003, have been hosted on Dragondata almost six years. Wow, the time goes by...

A long time ago, on an Internet far far away.

My god, when did it get to be Thursday? My god, when did it get to be DECEMBER?!

Once upon a time, about 1995 or 6 or so, I was Queen of Usenet. At least in the gaming newsgroups, although I was pretty well respected all around. A reader of mine made a fan page for me, and, lo, did I have my first webpage. Now I had nothing to do with it, but it was nice to have. :)

Eventually, I started my own site (really just a mirror of the fan site) and when the fan site dissapeared, I started some upkeep of my own. The web was fairly new and sparse, and there weren't too many places to go. The site was updated by stealing code from other pages on the webn, and searching my cache for nice background images (I know I stole Ed Boon's (the lead programmer of Mortal Kombat) background images more than once, which is probably why he never invited me for tea).

I had about six favorite places I went to often and added them to a small section at the bottom of the page. I posted up an image that said "YOU HAVE FOUND THE TREASURES OF JENN DOLARI!" and had the six links in a 32x32 icon. And so began the Click-O-Rama.

I've always had a bad habit of going to a page once or twice, and bookmarking it for later. The six turned into ten, then twenty, then got so large I had to categorize them into groups. By 2001, when I last updated the Click-O-Rama, I had over 600 links on there. The C-O-R was actually pretty well visited (I got 40,000 visits when anything over 1,000 was amazing) because of the ecclectic mix of links and whatnot. It was never really ever meant to be a feature, just an incredibly large bookmark file that was publicly available. I was my own personal Internet Portal - LOTS of folks going through there.

But in 2000, with the move to Austin, the job shuffle, the layoff, and the shuffling of cities in 2001, I didn't have any time to update the site. But I kept bookmarking the sites I found and enjoyed. I kept meaning to update the Click O Rama, but in 2004, after Trinoc, I realized I'd collected WAY too many links to update the site...and now older links were going stale or breaking all together, and I had no time to go back and check all 600 links. It was my sad duty, but I closed down the Click-O-Rama. I still had CS and AWFW.

Zoom forward to today. I'm going through all my backups, and find a "Favorites" file from just a week or two ago. I look in it, and it has the "Unorganized" folder in there, which were ALL the links I had planned to put in the C-O-R, including the once SINCE 2004 I was still bookmarking out of force of habit.

The count? 898 BOOKMARKS.

Wow, there are more "pending" links than there were actual links when I killed the C-O-R.

And now...with auto updaters, and automated checking...I'm wondering if I could (or even if I SHOULD) rebuild that file again. A New and Improved Click-O-Rama with Over 1300 links of random crap! Think anyone would still go to it? :)

The maintenance, though. I think I'll pass. Maybe I'll just put up a list of links like I have for my daily visits ( http://www.dolari.org/genericversion.htm )

Versions of the C-O-R:

1996 - August 1997 - The original fan pages on tmok.com and all the pages from eden.com are gone with the sands of time....
August 1997 - February 1999 - http://web.archive.org/web/19990224184746/www.dragondata.com/~dolari/ (no images ((all links were under those icons in "Local Pages" (and notice the Closetspace icon in 1997!)))
February 1999 - May 2001 - http://web.archive.org/web/20010526082358/home.austin.rr.com/jenn1/clickorama.htm (No images)
June 2001 - February 2002 - http://www.dolari.org/pub/cor2001.png (795x3411 image)
February - October 2002 - http://www.dolari.org/pub/cor2002.png (775x2962 image)
November 2002-2004 - http://www.dolari.org/pub/cor2004.png (520x1053 image (all links were under those icons))

It's funny...but with all the ISPs I've used over the years, I still have a shell account with tmok.com (going on ten years!) and, depite a small break from late 2000 to early 2003, have been hosted on Dragondata almost six years. Wow, the time goes by...