Interview with Drax

1. Tell us a little about yourself. I am 52 and I live alone in East Durham, New York. I've worked in London, New York, San Francisco, Moscow. I've had 30 different jobs in 30 years, after about a year I get bored *laughs*. I am originally from Co Tyrone in the North of Ireland, Ireland will always be my home and I will return there soon.
2. What brought you to HubPages? When I read about HubPages at the beginning one of the main things that appealed to me was the freedom you have in 'publishing' your own hubs. The topics, the language, the layout - everything is up to you yet you do not have the tedium of web tech to contend with.
3. What do you like Hubbing on, with respect to topics? My Hubs are primarily poems sprinkled with items I picked from the Idea Bank and then random topics about things that catch my attention. I would like to be able to hub more but as the dollar slides work intrudes more and more into my poetry time.
4. What has been your best Hub so far (in your opinion)? Why? Hub Junkies - written to celebrate my 100 hub... the first hundredth hub if I remember correctly. This pseudo poem captured the excitement of HubPages at that time and the friendly camaraderie that existed between a relatively small group of pioneers....
5. What is your favorite Hub by another Hubber? Suicidal Dogs by jimmythejock - this story of Jimmy's kept me awake at night and was the starting point for the poem Suicide Dogs but there are literally dozens more like Prisoners of Tibet Special Report by Guru-C and Official Playgirl by Nightflower but especially poems that came directly from HubPages Sedona Skin, Bloody Fingers, Gamer Doll, Moo Baa La La La, Near Perfection, and the Vulcan poem Nam-tor zherka na'nash-veh u'akanik. I had so much fun writing all these and in another world could easily spend hours every day doing this.
6. What is one nice thing about HubPages (the site) that many might not know? You can place the rss feed for any HubPages topic on your desktop. Go to http://hubpages.com/tag/poetry/latest, click on the rss icon, which takes you to the rss feed. Now you can drag this link to your deskptop (in most/many OSs)
7. Name one thing you learned about from another Hubber's Hub that you didn't know about before. Robin's Hub on split infinitives and indeed many of Robin's great grammar hubs - you go to school learn this stuff and then forget it on the way out the gate.
8. What kind of Hubber do you typically join the Fan Club of? For example 20 Fun First Date Ideas: New York City by BecauseILive - prompted me to join her Fanclub because her Hubs are well written and well researched and you can learn something new from them.
9. If you could impart one piece of advice to a new Hubber, what would that be? Do not spend 23 hours a day at the beginning, it is so easy to do so - better to set a maximum time but do it every day - day after day. Hubbing is intellectual exercise, we have to keep working those muscles people....
10. Tell us something that we'd never guess about you—surprise us! My real name is Des Donnelly - I suppose I should be promoting myself as well as my pseudonym Drax - I have www.desdonnelly.com, www.poet.it, www.poet.ie, www.drax.net, www.drax.org, www.drax.eu, www.drax.ie, - all of these are out of date and need work or a decent CMS. Any poetry loving database content management systems gurus out there?