Penny Arcade mentioned how Kottke going “full time blogging” is _not a new thing_ and they’re right. Web Rings (referral links to each other), affiliate programs, advertising, merchandising, donations, commission, sponsoring articles, print versions of the product … if anything, web comics have explored _more_ avenues than blogs and keep in mind, most web comics like PA have had a blog element already so all the issues of trust, conflicts of interest, how do we know they’re not selling out, etc etc have _also_ been covered.

It’s nice to think of oyurself as a trailblazer but sometimes, it might be worthwhile to go “hey, maybe this isn’t a new problem”.

Too bad I lost my Dimage-X in Paris. I guess I’ll have to get an S400 – but I won’t be able to in time for this trip =(

I’m in London and have been since my last post. My access to any decent net connection has either been at the client site or through a modem (which, in most modern books, is not defined as “decent”). I’m suffering from some withdrawal. I barely even get my PA fix now.

Also, those movies I mentioned below will get more detailed reviews.

In other news, I spent the weekend in Paris. My first time there and my first experience in a hostel. I’d show you pics but part of my adventures included me losing my camera which unfortunately, means I lost a lot of pictures which I felt were fairly unique. At some point, I will have to textually describe in painful detail each of the 133 photos so anyone who wants a more painful way to die than being drawn and quartered (common in London back in the hey day), can just READ my photos.

Hey Kev,

It’s been awhile and I just dropped by to see if your blog is still being updated. Anyways.. I drink 8+ glasses of water while I work.. that means I have to go to washroom every 30 min or less

Anyways.. what you doing for the holidays?

I’m mainly posting here so that Kevin knows that people actually read this. I also realized (in conversation with KC) the full extent of the wealth gap between my former and present self. Wow.

I just read through the entire archives and realized that I never properly introduced myself:

I too am a friend of the illustrious Kevin Cheng. We met while working for pcOrder/Trilogy together — to be precise, I met him while squatting in his office. His officemate was always travelling and I didn’t have an office on the floor that I was required to be on all the time.

Yeah, since then we’ve had many crazy adventures and now have settled into a relatively peaceful existence as friends.

So in case any of you long-lost friends decide to ever surface and read this, that’s who I am.

In other news: I’m no longer in the market for a flat-screen display — bought my brother a 15″ LCD TFT one… very very nice.

Well, well, well…guess it’s time for another update.
When we last left our hero, he was teetering on the brink of alcoholism in peace-torn Dublin

Alrighty…Dublin sucked, so I left. Me and Ashley are back in Vancouver; I’m working at a wireless company called Infowave. Trying to just look at it as a job; my last job was a lot of responsibility, and a lot of it for things I shouldn’t be responsible for in a company. Plus, I think I got screwed over in some way. Anyhoo…new (relatively speaking) web site up at www.brendonwilson.com. I’m living in downtown Vancouver now, in the heart of Yaletown. Me like. I’ve seen Jesse and John, but not too much, as they’re usually hangin’ out with Sean.

So Kev, when you comin’ home? Or is that a never-gonna-happen kinda thing?

Hey Kev,
Arr… I had to retype this whole message… As I was about to say AGAIN…Hope things are going well for you. I’m glad to hear that you’re moving into a house with your buds. I can never imagine you living in an apartment even though you were raised in HK. Anyway, like I was about to say, you never know who you can meet these days especially in my line of work. On a recent flight to New York I met your former roommates who was on their way to a wedding(Brandon’s I think). I felt bad not recognizing them but they were nice enough to approach me. The other incident was meeting actor John Ritter from the ’80s show Three’s Company and his wife Amy Yasbeck from Wings in a Chinese restaurant near my hotel in NYC. Like I said, small world. As for me, nothing special, just the usual weekly trek to HK and the occasional jurney to NYC. It’s good to hear that things are going well for you. Do take care of yourself and I’ll talk to you some time.
Marc

Hey Kevin, just thought I’d drop you a line. Hope things are going well for you. By the way, your company’s stock’s taking a beating right now… oh well. For some of you who don’t know me, I’m Marc. I went to high school with Kevin in Vancovuer. Currently I work as a flight attendant flying to Hong Kong quite frequently and occasionally to New York. The job itself can be annoying but you meet some interesting people sometimes. Well, that’s the 411 about me. Take care.