I took a giant step toward accomplishing a huge, long term goal!
And I feel further away from accomplishing it than I did before I started.
To my more technically inclined readers, this post will seem ridiculous. However…
One of my l-o-o-o-o-n-g term goals is to write a commentary on the Bible. I have been working on it for 15 years so far. I will be finished when I die and can no longer make new entries in it.
That is a big enough task. However, I also want to publish it on the Web.
Over the years, I have described my dream to several programmers. The response is fairly consistent…
“That is a b-i-i-i-g project…It can be done…but…”And they are just talking about putting it on the Internet!
I might have been born at night, but it wasn’t last night! I can translate what they are saying…”It gonna cost a whole bunch a mu-nay!”
I have heard “ballpark”estimates of $5,000 or more!
It just so happens that I don’t have that right now. Come to think of it, I have never really had a stack of cash sitting around the house that I just couldn’t figure out what to do with!
So, last night, I reverted to my default setting…
D-I-Y
I actually started down the path of doing it myself!!!
Am I nuts???
I went to bed after midnight and then woke up before 4:00 A.M. My mind was working double time trying to figure out how to solve the problems I encountered.
Well, about 11:00 A.M. this morning, I actually succeeded in setting up a test database on the site that carries this blog! I actually saw it! Did you know that there are 31,102 verses in the Bible?
Yahoo!!! It is only a test…but it is actually there!!!
Now, about the chasm…
I have not got a clue how to get that database to actually be visible on the Internet. After much research and reading today, I just don’t get it.
Now that I think about it, that is exactly how I felt about setting up a database online not too long ago!
Shoot, 8 years ago, I had no clue how I could ever become a blogger…
Stay tuned…
