[Helpers] FST links project - overview

[Mystress Angelique Serpent]

At 01:07 PM 4/23/2005, Sandra Davis wrote:
>Hi Mystress, this was a hugemongous email to digest. Whew...
>
>I'm happy to say I have only this one spot where I went 'huh'?
>
>It's your response to 4.2 f (below)... I don't know what links in the
>preview refer to, nor what the updated version is about.

   "Preview" is the general term I use, to refer to all the public pages in 
the main directory of fire-serpent.com, including the free preview lessons, 
the realplayer technical info, the FAQ, the registration and email pages, etc.

    In addition to the lesson links, Fire-serpent.com also has a regular 
links page, like any other site.   Part of its purpose is promotion via 
reciprocal links.
http://www.fire-serpent.com/fstlink.html
   You will find a partly repaired version at the update pages. I started 
working on it, but didn't finish. Found weird stuff. Got distracted. ***
    www.fire-serpent.org/fscnew/

*** A fuller explanation:
   Annually, or less often,  I google my own name and domain names, and 
find out who is linking to my sites, so I can be polite and link back to 
theirs. Sometimes they are weird and not kundalini related, so "Reciprocal 
links" have a special section in the main links page.

   Sometimes I will thank them and let them know I am giving them a 
reciprocal link, hence the sig file for it.  If I am feeling outgoing I 
might ask them to also link to my other domains.

   It is always an odd experience googling my domains, because while it is 
nice to see people linking to me, I usually also end up finding how often I 
am misunderstood. I have encountered pages describing me as everything from 
psychotic and deluded, to a transgendered prostitute. I end up either 
getting pissed and flaming them, or idly wondering what the hell is going 
on in their head, and that makes empathy with them, and that gets 
messy...  Better for someone else to do it...

    Less often, every few years when I am PMSing and feeling paranoid or 
possessive, I'll do searches on random phrases from my pages, or an image 
title to see if anyone is breaking my copyright.
    I sometimes find the FST logo being stolen, or other material being 
reproduced without consent. Usually it is innocuous, a page being reprinted 
on a bulletin board, with copyright and link.

    Occasionally it is possibly damaging. I recall one page from a psycho 
guy who thought all triangles were evidence of Satanic, Masonic 
conspiracy.  FST having a triangle, a pentacle and a snake on it was rich 
food for his delusions... and he was linking to a video, stealing 
bandwidth... which my bizz partner at the time, objected to.

   <shrug> For the most part, I figure "any publicity is good publicity" 
and do not address my detractors...  but I draw the line at the grounding 
or the FST logo being misused.

>  As for an
>updated version... is there a chance of me working on stuff that's
>already been repaired or finished?

   Yes, please repair the updated ones, at www.fire-serpent.org/fscnew/,
   not the old version at fire-serpent.com.

    It will just have to limp along a while longer! What is broken on it, 
has been broken since it was last moved... and I think it is best to give 
attention to the updated version instead, get it online asap... especially 
the new preview.

   However, it does come down to, which versions is Sachiko done with? 
Sachiko, can you give us regular updates, as you go? Let us know what pages 
you are done with and/or what pages you have not started on? Either way...

   I find it useful to make a sitemap of all the pages of a site, and make 
it into a "Work" file where I make notes on the status of each page, and 
gradually cross them off.
Here is a very old one for FST so you can see what I mean.
http://www.fire-serpent.org/fscnew/tantra/hs~work.html

  Here is one from when I was working on the KSN site. It has code snippets 
too.
http://www.ksn.fire-serpent.org/work.html

    Right now my focus is on managing helpers, and working on my book. I 
will review the content of each lesson after your work is done and the 
other bits of it are repaired...

    that way maybe I will get feedback from the helpers about each lesson 
and how it could be better or clearer?  :)  Onward and upward!


>I'm feeling cautious. ... It's my laser mind you know! *laughing* I
>carefully prepare the path before I switch on that laser... cuz after
>that it's some high-powered sh*t! *snort*... Hehehehe

   I totally know what you mean!  I really appreciate it, actually.  I have 
enough scarcity consciousness about my own time, for sure do not want to 
waste anyone else's!

   I once asked one of my Priestesses, who works writing manuals, if she 
would turn Fire Serpent Tantra into a book... it was still under 
construction, at the time. I gave her access so she could look at it and 
tell me what she thought of it...
   I assumed she would have questions about exactly what I wanted, and knew 
to wait till I was finished writing it. I was asking well in advance of 
being actually ready to publish.
    Instead she got back to me with the book done, warts, unfinished 
unedited essays and all,  and saved as a PDF file...  No way for me to edit 
or update it, it was 8.5 x11 and used the same big fonts and title gifs as 
the web page...  I felt bad, she worked so hard on it and it was completely 
useless. She had not kept the doc file she made it from.

   I hope my frustration at Sue manifesting as my deja vu nightmare come 
back to haunt me, did not discourage anyone from volunteering or asking 
questions. It is better to ask questions if you are not clear than to forge 
ahead in the wrong direction.
   Got to aim that laser carefully! :)