the personal weblog of paul burd, multimedia designer

One Digital Life needs your help

4.12.2006 – 3:53 pm | by paul

So, if you were here earlier, or you subscribe to my feed, you saw a very different post here this afternoon. I’ve taken that post down. I never should have written it in the first place. I’m actually very ashamed of myself, and a bit humiliated by the whole thing. Please forgive me.

Let me explain what happened. I met with my tax guy this morning. That meeting was a bit overwhelming, and I had a minor freak-out. I came home, and in a knee-jerk reaction I turned to my blog for comfort. I gave all of you a sob story about it, and asked if you like the site, please lend me a hand.

As time went on today after I posted the story, I began to feel very self-concious, and ashamed of what I had done. It was just wrong of me to lay that all on you guys.

My heartfelt thanks go out to everyone who laid down their hard-earned cash to lend me a hand. I really appreciate the thought. But, I’ve refunded all the money that came in.

Seeing a “donate” button on blogs is by no means uncommon, and I don’t normally think it’s wrong to do. But, the way I did it was wrong. Again, please forgive me.

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8 Responses to “One Digital Life needs your help”

  1. Tom Vendetta Says:
    April 12th, 2006 at 10:18 pm

    I read a paragraph of what you wrote before, walked away from the computer, and the page had auto-refreshed itself, and it was gone! What a cliffhanger!! Could you email me it, please? ={

  2. paul Says:
    April 12th, 2006 at 10:22 pm

    Thanks for your interest Tom, but the original post is gone. Sorry. The new post has everything you need to know :)

  3. Tom Vendetta Says:
    April 12th, 2006 at 10:25 pm

    Nooooo!!! Darn =( If only the google caches were only a tad bit faster! Anywho, good luck to you with all financial business and what not :)

  4. Jeremiah Says:
    April 12th, 2006 at 11:51 pm

    You had me feeling sorry for you. I almost gave you some money from my iPod fund. And after buying myself an iPod, I may but for now I will just click your ads for you.

  5. paul Says:
    April 13th, 2006 at 11:37 am

    Thanks ;)

    I’m glad you didn’t take money out of your iPod fund… that would suck! I’ll be OK, really. :)

  6. Laurence Anderson Says:
    April 13th, 2006 at 1:48 pm

    Dang Paul, I just got the funds I needed to clear into my bank account, I wish I could have helped you out :(.

  7. paul Says:
    April 13th, 2006 at 4:26 pm

    Thank Laurence, but I’ll be OK. I’ve calmed down after my freak-out.

  8. Richard Says:
    August 3rd, 2006 at 6:05 pm

    Good luck, and I only just found this site, but i love it. Keep up the good work man :-D

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