OK, Bryan Bell, did you ever consider that one of the most important features in the Radio interface (and thus, affected by your themes) is the Home page with the blog entry box?  Look how you've shoved into an entirely unwieldy location.  Does this not happen when you look at it?  Or do you have some way of using it that the majority (or today, just me) find to be the equivalent of left-handed equipment? (Sorry, all you lefties.)  Sad.  And I was beginning to like the Discreet series of themes.  (Sorry, no links this time.  I'm running out of steam.)

Here's a follow-up to that question:  Google counts for add-ons to those products I (and hopefully others) use so much.

Microsoft Outlook add-on yields about 38,000.
Groove add-on turns up 7,790.
Radio UserLand add-on uncovers about 1,590.
TreePad add-on reveals only 173.  Maybe more people should try TreePad.

Now, I haven't really had time to explore these result sets, but the counts might be some kind of indicator.

A dreamy shareware author (me) wonders: "How much of a market is there for add-ons to other major products?"  I'm pondering the practicality, marketability, and impact on my sanity (and my wife's) of exploring potential add-ons to products like Microsoft Outlook, Groove, Radio UserLand, and TreePad.  Not Groove, so much, because I really don't use it much anymore.  It was too hard cheerleading my not-so-computer-loving friends and family into using an interface or package like Groove.  Great stuff, but it requires a lot of like-thinking people in a tighter community than I was able to muster.  Ah, well, I do enjoy publishing to my weblog for anyone to read.  Maybe I'll also get around to building and/or acquiring that content management system I've been dreaming of to manage the personal website I've been dreaming of.

Ah, yes, those dreams just keep coming.  The problem is that I build so many dependencies into my dreams that none of the dependencies are met, and thus, none of the dreams are realized.  Stop that you idiot!  (That was me talking to me for just a second.)

It seems that I have gotten all of my referrals from searches, either from Google or Yahoo.  All except for one seem to be from searches on technical terms or topics.  I suppose the ramblings that spill over from my "time in the shop" at least have the value of attracting an occasional visitor.

Ah, yes, content IS the key!  I had been complaining about not receiving any traffic.  I think this is the fourth hit I have had on the referrers page in Radio UserLand.  Hopefully after a while, the content on my blog will reach critical mass and attract even (dare I say it?) maybe five visitors a day.

I have done enough reading on Search Engine Watch to know that constantly trying to appease the search engine users' taste for content and keywords, while avoiding search engine spamming, is to just provide good content.  I realize my ramblings here are not necessarily good content, but hey, it's my weblog!  At least I've included a couple of links for you to follow.

"What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action."
-Meister Eckhart

My Franklin Covey PlanPlus for Outlook inspiring quote of the day.  I have spent a lifetime in thinking and contemplation.  Even now, I am still learning how to sift my wayward thoughts and pull value out of the mirky depths.  It seems that something has kept my thoughts from turning into results.

Oh, there's been plenty of action; but the lack of focus and abundance of distraction has gotten the best of my best intentions.  Then add the fact that goals for the overachiever soon become uninteresting and tedious, useful only for reminding a tortured soul of things celebrated and then abandoned.

Sometimes I wonder if the only task I have been assigned in this life is uncovering and utilizing the potential that God has given me in spite of all of my personal flaws.  Maybe once I get past some selfish desire to be rich and famous, God can use me and my work for his glory and his kingdom.  God, please do so I pray.

Thank you God, for my mind.  Please harness it and work out your will in my thoughts and my actions.  Amen.