December 2007 Archives
SaK
There was a time when I sat at least 8 hours a day in front of a computer screen that has only a few boring colors: white and green letters on black background; and when you see your screen turns red, you know that you've just done something very wrong. If you have ever been a (Cobol) mainframe programer, you know what I'm talking about here.
Then one day, I got an idea ...I wanted to publish the simple html site that I had created at school (must be a project for an html 101 class). Soon after that, sweetandkool.com was born. The URL was suggested by a friend of mine when I asked around, 'I need a name for a personal website. What come to your mind when you think of me?' :). I don't know how true that is but the URL sounds ....kool.
So, with sweetandkool, my computer screen was not that boring anymore. It has more colors than solid black, white, green and red and I was happy about it. I got addicted and soon made it to be a decent personal website, a home for my friends to hang out on the net. Before you run out and check sweetandkool.com, I have to say that it has recently been wiped out by jaguarpc.com by mistake without any back up. So sweetandkool disappeared now, just like that and might never be fully recovered. I'm still crying over that loss now but it's not what this blog is about.
One of those days, an old friend came and told me, 'Sweetandkool is THE MOST BEAUTIFUL (Vietnamese)PERSONAL WEBSITE I've ever seen (at that time)'. I said, 'Really? You think so?' Man, I felt good for a while,...only to realize that,...he probably just said so because...he was about to ask me to create the danchimviet.com site. 'Oh well, I'll do it.' Thinking,...I would just do some simple graphic and layout and hand it back to him and ....run. Guess what,....I'm stuck....till now.
At the time danchimviet.com was created, sweetandkool.com had an average 2000 unique visitors a month. I jokingly told my friend, 'I give danchimviet a year to catch up with sweetandkool (on the number of visitors),....thinking ....I doubt it, man...danchimviet can't beat 'the most beautiful personal website'! :) We never remember to come back and check to see when the number of visitors to danchimviet exceeded that number for sweetandkool. Recently, someone knocked knocked on my gmail with the news, 'We've reached the number 100,000 now!' That was the Editor-in-Chief of danchimviet.com, talking about the number of its monthly unique visitors. Wow!
The reason I go this lengthy with my story probably just to explain why there is something....sweetandkool at dcvblogs.com :). In case any of you may argue, why sweetandkool blog is here, 'it has nothing to do with ....'Democracy for Vietnam'' for example...:) Then sorry! :) It's here, hm...probably not even because of any reasons I've 'explained' above. It's here simply because editor-in-chief of danchimviet.com invited its owner to blog here and approved its existence. The idea is..... its content doesn't have to be about this or that as long as it's of readers' interest and its owner doesn't do anything against danchimviet's mission statement and.....last but not least, he/she has to add new content .....regularly,...I think...:)
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12/05/2007
Sweet and Kool
P.S. Should I say it again?, 'I give dcvblogs.com a year to catch up with danchimviet.com on the number of unique visitors.' 'Yeah, right. I doubt it!'.....But that will be.....kool .....and sweet too :)
