I’m moving this domain to a different registrar, so things may or may not appear wonky over the next few days.  This website may or may not be available.  But it will be back.

P.S. I still haven’t forgotten that I owe you a 5th anniversary show. Been thinking about the music and what else I want to include in it.

Hit me up in the usual social channels if you’d like.

Ah, remember those good ol’ K7 days? No? Remember that 206-666-JIMM phone number I used to have, and how you used to call occasionally and leave messages I’d play on the podcast?  Well, something happened to that number, and I haven’t had a voicemail line for some time.

Until today.

Prompted by the Official Commentator of the Journey Inside My Mind, Ed Ovett from Ed’s Mixed Bag, I got a new voicemail/fax line. I’m branding the phone line as the “voicemail line for Daniel Johnson, Jr. and Jazzmania Productions”, so that I can use it for my other new media projects as well.

So, without further ado, the voicemail/fax number for Daniel Johnson, Jr. and Jazzmania Productions is

+1-206-339-8030

Enter that number in your phone and call it regularly. Especially if you have a comment for the Journey Inside My Mind.

Update: This number has also faded. Please use the Contact page to get in touch.

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Help! I’ve been trying to access category and archive pages and keep getting error messages, stating that the pages don’t exist.  Troublesome.  Is this happening to you?

Try this: click on the Categories dropdown and select a category.  Then select a month in the Archives dropdown.

Any of you using WordPress have this happen? Do you have any advice or tips?

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I’m at the point where I’m ready to move away from the default WordPress theme to something with more pizzazz.  Since this website is about the Journey Inside My Mind, which includes music, musings, and the like, I have to believe that there are some themes available that can help bring this out.  Do you have any suggestions? Feel free to leave them in the comments.

This post originates at http://journeyinsidemymind.com

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• WordPress Theme Goodness

Maybe you noticed on danieljohnsonjr.com that I’m moving to WordPress. If not, here’s a heads-up.

I’ve played around with free hosting since I first set up my GeoCities site back in 2002. I still have “Dan’s Links” set up as my home page on my browser. (Stop laughing. It’s worked for me. ;P)

I’ve got me some web hosting and am slowly working my way in moving my blogs to hosted WordPress. I’m having to learn about nameservers and public_html, Fantastico, and all that fun stuff. But I’m really looking forward to playing with PHP and MySQL, since I’ve done a lot of SQL Server development for work.

If things here appear a bit wonky for awhile, that’s why. Also, if you’d like to offer some free advice during the transition, feel free to leave it in the comments, or contact me through the usual channels.

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Daniel Johnson, Jr.
Get That Job!
Journey Inside My Mind
QuotesBlog
Twitter.com/danieljohnsonjr
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Interesting Things I’ve Read

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I’m typing this post and setting the date to 07/07/07 at 07:07. Because I can.

From time to time, especially since I’ve been blogging for awhile, I like to look back through the archives of my blogs. It’s been awhile since I’ve done this for Journey Inside My Mind. Can you believe I’ve been doing this for 5-1/2 years? A lot of content since that first post back in January 2002.

Starting off by going back each month of 2007 so far:

• June: The new media playground is like jazz
• May: Keisha’s Heroes
• April: JIMM 084 – An Emotional Couple of Weeks
• March: Frustrations with hearing impairment show need for sensitivity
• February: Snowstorms, long drives, and podcasts – hooray!
• January: Five Questions Interview – Part 2 – The Answers

Here’s what happened as we go back a year at a time during this blog’s history:

• 1 Year Ago (July 2006): How to check a baby’s diaper
• 2 Years Ago (July 2005): I’m a Podcast Newbie
• 3 Years Ago (July 2004): Chalking Escapades
• 4 Years Ago (July 2003): Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
• 5 Years Ago (July 2002): 5 things you wouldn’t know about me from reading my blog

Have you found anything from the archives that you’d like brought back up to the surface? Let me know, and I’ll share it with the rest of the group here.

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Hi there. Have you checked out the latest episode of the Journey Inside My Mind Podcast? Great. If not, it’s still here.

Now for something new: a channel I’ve created called “danieljohnsonjr Recommends”. You can play the channel from danimal0416.podshow.com or add it to your iTunes. If you feel more adventurous, here’s the a PodShow Channel”>RSS.

I just twittered:

hey bloggers! when was the last time you browsed through your archives to see what you talked about 1 month, 6 months, 1 year, 2 years ago?

and I was immediately reminded that it’s been awhile since I did that myself. So, here goes:

• 1 Month Ago in the Journey Inside My Mind Blog: Music is indeed the soundtrack of our lives
• 6 Months Ago in the Journey Inside My Mind Blog: Video Greetings for December 6th
• 1 Year Ago in the Journey Inside My Mind Blog: The World is Going to Hell
• 2 Years Ago in the Journey Inside My Mind Blog: Thinking of You
• 3 Years Ago in the Journey Inside My Mind Blog: Miscellaneous Word Associations
• 4 Years Ago in the Journey Inside My Mind Blog: Pseudonyms
• 5 Years Ago in the Journey Inside My Mind Blog: Response to Chain E-mail

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Mood: upbeat
Listening to: Managing the Gray: Every Day is a Good Day
Reading: Learning XML, Second Edition
Eating: an apple

I checked my Bloglines and noticed that C.C. Chapman mentioned my name on his latest episode and the Journey Inside My Mind Blog in the shownotes, specifically with an audio comment about how the new media playground is a lot like jazz:

“Do not fear mistakes; there are none.” – Miles Davis.

A lot of jazz music usually involves improvisation within the boundaries of a chord progression. The song starts off, usually with the melody. Then different instruments take their solos, which usually fall within the same chord progression as the melody. Eventually everyone comes back together to wrap up the song.

I’m probably grossly oversimplifying things with that description, especially when you consider trendsetters like Miles Davis, who through constantly reinventing himself, created new boundaries and genres of jazz music (Check out this post from 2003 for more information: Paving the Milestones).

I like to think that’s what it’s like with what we’re doing with new media.

ABOUT DANIEL JOHNSON, JR.

I suppose I should share a bit more about me, in case this is your first time here.

I’ve been blogging since January 2002 and podcasting since August 2005. I now have more blogs than I care to count. Here is more of me, in case you’re interested:

• Daniel Johnson, Jr. – my portfolio blog
• Journey Inside My Mind Podcast – the podcast spin-off of this blog
• Get That Job! for job-hunting, career development, toolkits, success stories, and the like
• QuotesBlog quotations collected from various places over the years
• Follow danieljohnsonjr on Twitter – more frequent updates of stuff going on. By the way, if you add me as a friend, please contact me via email or leave a comment here so that I know how you found me.

And of course you can find me on MySpace, LinkedIn, and other social media networks. I’m always open to connect; just let me know how you found me.

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Hi there, listener of the Journey Inside My Mind Podcast! I’ve missed you. A lot. It turns out from the feed statistics that you’ve been checking out past shows. I’ve been doing some of that, too. Listening to a lot of other podcasts as well.

I feel like a pressure cooker; I’ve got so much I look forward to sharing with you!

So, while I’m getting my “ducks in a row”, I’d love for you to send in your thoughts:

• Call the Listener Hotline: +1 (206) 666-JIMM
• Click the MyChingo button and use the microphone connected to your computer
• Click on the “Send Me a Voice Message” button and use the microphone connected to your computer
• Send an email to danieljohnsonjr at gmail dot com – attach an mp3 if you’d like

Howdy. Last night I upgraded the Journey Inside My Mind Blog layout to better make use of the good stuff from the latest version of Blogger. I’m not finished, as I need to get my Twitter stuff on here, and I want to present the labels in a cloud, instead of the alphabetical list you see now.

Update: I have implemented label clouds on all my upgraded blogs; namely

• Daniel Johnson, Jr.
• Journey Inside My Mind Blog
• Get That Job!
• QuotesBlog
• Jazzmania Productions
• Homeschooler Podcast
• Me, Myself, and I (Mom’s blog)

Look for more warm, juicy goodness in the near future.

I recently gave the Official Mom’s blog a makeover. Check it out and let her know what you think!

This is either going to work smoothly or really get messed up. I have created a master feed of all the Journey Inside My Mind Podcast episodes and have just redirected the FeedBurner URL to pull from that feed. No need to update your subscriptions, but you may find a bunch of new episodes in your podcatching software. I hope not, though.

I described the rationale behind this in the earlier article, “Working on new, custom RSS feed for JIMM Podcast“. One big reason is so that the show can get listed in the various popular podcast directories, including the iTunes Music Store. I guess I thought that it would automatically get discovered by iTunes, but I’ve now learned that wasn’t the case. I have since submitted the feed to be listed, and I’m looking forward to being able to share the news that the show is listed in that directory.

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I’ve just updated the layout for QuotesBlog. It had been almost an entire year since the site had been updated, according to the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine page. Below is the recent layout:

Incidentally, here’s what it looked like in one of its earliest forms, way back in November 2002:

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I could seriously go back to bed right now. I got pleasantly distracted yesterday with the idea of creating my own RSS feed for the Journey Inside My Mind Podcast.

Right now, FeedBurner is creating the feed from whatever Blogger puts on the front page. I had initially set up the blog to show 999 posts per page, so that everything would be on the front page and therefore also in the feed. After about 50 episodes or so, it was taking too long for the page to load, so I opted to limit the number to the last 50 episodes per page.

I recently was reminded that Rob at podcast411 has a tutorial on how to create an RSS feed by hand. That got me thinking that I could have, at a minimum, feeds with 50 episodes in them at a time. That way, new listeners could subscribe to it and then easily be able to pick up some of the older episodes, some of which are my personal favorites.

I think I will opt instead to use this feed for everything. It is a small task to maintain this with every episode that gets released, and it will always redirect subscribers back to the main page.

So I spent over 6 hours yesterday getting the first 55 episodes into the new feed. I’m currently up to 79 episodes, so it’s just a bit more work to get them into the master feed.

Then I get to work with the FeedBurner folks to redirect the podcast feed from the original Atom feed on the blog to this new feed. I’ve heard about it done from other podcasters, and it appears to be seamless.

I may opt to record the episode for this coming week today or continue assembling the rest of the episodes into the new RSS feed.

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You may or may not have noticed some changes recently to this blogs and others I produce since I migrated them over to the new Blogger; namely that posts have categories/labels associated with them, so that you can see what else I’ve posted in the related categories.

Well, I up and redid the way Get That Job! looks. I completely redid the template and layout, and I must say, the change looks better. I hope to freshen up the look of all my blogs in the near future.

I recently found out that the Internet Archive has a Wayback Machine, where you can see how websites have changed over time. For example, you can see various incarnations of journeyinsidemymind.com since September 2002. Check it out.

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No time to post anything real substantial here, but I found some gorgeous information from the folks at Alexa about journeyinsidemymind.blogspot.com you might find all warm and juicy.

I have updated my Blogger Profile to further delineate my super powers. In addition, I have decided to start a new blog (I know, yet another one) where I describe my professional exploits. It’s designed to be more of an online portfolio, and I write about specific projects I have worked on, with more technical details than you would find over here:Daniel Johnson, Jr.

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Yesterday my Google Adsense check came. It had been about 15 months since the previous one, and it was so timely, given our family’s current financial situation.