Who blogged this? Post your guess, and after hitting "save" then go ahead and hover over that tiny "answer" link at the end.
No cheating. Buddy Christ is watching you. ;D
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I quickly discovered that WYSIWYG editor at Typepad is great, and since it did all the heavy lifting for me (formatting, marking up links and inserting and modifying images) I had much more time to just take creative ideas and put them into my blog.
Around this time, I also got some new writing jobs that actually put money into my pocket and food on my table -- jobs writing about poker for CardSquad, writing a column on classic gaming for the AV Club called The Games of our Lives, and editing the geek news at Suicide Girls. In my spare time, I played a lot of Texas Holdem Poker at Poker Stars (where I'm a member of Team PokerStars) and did things with my family.
I had one of my first real "grown up" moments the day I realized that there really are only 24 hours in a day, and I had to choose very carefully how I wanted to spend them.
You know what I didn't want to spend them on? hand-coding html and tweaking software settings. It's sad, and I'll probably lose a 3d20 geek points for saying it, but those days are way, way behind me. After a day of making freelance deadlines, the last thing I'd want to do is try to repair and redesign my website, and since I was happy in Exile, it just wasn't that important to me.
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give up?
And actor that some of us previously "loved to hate" (mainly the character he played) but soon after he departed from the ensemble cast from his very famous series, he started earning "respek" in the Internets, and is now a much-admired writer on various topics.
answer (http://www.wilwheaton.net/2006/05/wil_wheaton_dot_net_version_15_1.php).
Well there ya go ruining the puzzle now ;)
http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/27/0926218
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When I was younger, I always assumed that I'd be an actor for the rest of my life. I liked acting, and I didn't totally suck at it. But when I hit my late teens, I worried that I may not be as good an actor as I thought I was, so I took some time off. That long and winding road lead to the Where's My Burrito? Geocities website, which eventually lead to my blog, Dancing Barefoot, and the Star Trek book. Along the way, I discovered something very important about myself: I still enjoy acting, and I love to perform for an audience . . . but it's the creating that I love, and writing allows me to create much more than I can when I'm an actor-for-hire.
...glad I never took up acting as a child, cuz I also find the "creating" aspect of most anything I do (developing, writing, impropmptu storytelling to the kids, coming up with excuses why I have to end an interminably long phone call with a certain someone...) is also what I love, what my passion is... it would suck to be a "child actor" who never continued in Hollywood.
In 99.44% of "where are they now" question s, the answer is one of...
-dead
-near death due to drugs
-near death due to insanity
-insane due to drugs
-insane due to family pressures/celebrity life (e.g. stalkers)
-murdered by stalker/spouse (just finished watching NewsRadio DVD volume 1, and I am REALLY pissed at Phil Hartman's homicidal wife (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0366923/board), dammit dammit what might have been...)
-thrice divorced (perhaps to get away from murderous spouses?)
-hosting a reality show
-doing cameos as "himself/herself" in Wayans brothers films
Mr. "CleverNickName" is definitely a rare exception. ;D