tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-255433482011-12-13T20:57:03.025-07:00What if you built a website for the dead and nobody came? Would that be a good thing or a bad thing?Jennifer Petkushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12356790455349322216noreply@blogger.comBlogger91100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25543348.post-1147150982462938582006-05-08T22:55:00.000-06:002006-05-08T23:03:02.473-06:00

Just added a podcast to the website. An interesting little expedition using Audacity for the Mac to record the audio and creating a feed using this link. I'll probably just update the feed with BBEdit. I know this process isn't news to most people. I just haven't gotten around to it because I tore up my recording studio when I moved back in with my husband. I was a little worried about the sound

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Shut up, you big whiner. It's easy. Go to the AfterNet, register for a username, and either:Pretend to be a famous dead person (you may not be the first to claim to be that person, howeverPretend to be a non-famous dead person (less research, fewer rewards)Pretend to be a living person (shouldn't be much of a stretch)Here's your chance to be Madame Curie, Napoleon Bonaparte or Ulf, a 12th century

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I just realized I got upset with one of my fictional characters on the website.

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It’s so much fun keeping track of the various personalities I’ve created while building the AfterNet. There’s Steffan Kometsky, a Minnesoootan who I use as my baseball guy. There are the characters from my book, Alex Munroe and Linda Yamaguchi, Lady Sylvia (who’s not yet made an appearance in the new site and is actually the creation of Susan Chandler) and of course, Fr. Justin Hogarth S.J., who

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“Promoting the website is driving me crazy,” I told my husband.“Uh huh,” he replied, eyes fixed on the baseball game while he slowly sipped his beer.“I can’t do a lot of things to promote the website because I don’t want to break the fiction.”He said nothing so I nudged him with my shoulder. He pulled his eyes from the TV. “Sorry, what were you saying? What about fiction?”“I can’t promote the

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The renovations weren’t finished, but I had gotten far enough to allow myself a break during the winter. I created the structure of the website in Dreamweaver, giving up on the idea of a completely Flash-based website, and I picked YaBB as the back-end for the messages.If you’re not familiar with YaBB (Yet another Bulletin Board), it’s a Perl-based completely free bulletin board package. Most web

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About the same time that I started working a regular nine to five job as a web designer, I also started dating my husband. We’d separated in ’95 but after the death of my mother, we slowly drifted back together. He'd been a big help during my mom’s various illnesses and we’d never actually divorced. And neither of us had dated during the separation. It was nice, rediscovering someone you knew so

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I made the first real determined effort at creating the website in 1997. But what to call it? The AfterLife was a perfect name but, of course, someone had already registered the name. I needed something else. What about the EtherNet? Yeah, I know it was already a common term, but come on, what a perfect name for a website for the dead.Taken. Someone had already registered a domain for a lousy

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Many years ago, I had a bright idea for a book. What if when you died, your soul lived on?OK, not all that original, you think. That’s the bulwark of most religions. But I extended it further. What if there were no heaven where you could frolic with your childhood pet Skippy? What if you weren't reunited with your parents or get to ask God why hot dogs come ten to the pack but buns only eight?

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