For various reasons, I am reconsidering the amount of time and effort I put into writing for this blog. There are positives and negatives to having this thing, however, and I am contemplating those lately as I think about whether or not it’s worth it to continue (most likely) and how much I should write for it (TBD).
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What Shall I Write?: the 2015 Edition
Every so often, I will start floundering with the blog a bit. This is one of those times. And when I do, I usually go ahead and ask the few readers I have to suggest topics for me to write about. This is one of those times. Drop requests in the comments section of this … Read more
5 Ideas for Future “List of Five” Posts
1. Five Ways in Which I Just “Mailed It In” 2. Five Ways in Which I am Awesome 3. Five Ways in Which I am Not Awesome 4. Five Reasons Google Should Hire Me 5. Five Reasons I Live in Minnesota Even Though I Hate These Miserable-Assed Winters That Make Me Want to Commit Seppuku
Hacking Up the Site
I haven’t been committing a whole lot of time to the edits of this site lately — I’ve switched to the Twenty Fifteen theme, which I like a great deal, and will stick with for the foreseeable future. However, I am going to spin off a child theme, as there’s some shit I want to … Read more
Haven’t Been Updating Here
Yeah. So I’ve been tinkering around over at Medium, just to see what it’s been about. In addition to working on a new visual layer for this site. Anyway. So yeah, if you want to read my posts that I’ve written over at Medium, there are current two over there: The Words I Regret Not … Read more
Annual Challenge
So this is the time in which I challenge the few of you that actually read this blog: what the hell do you want me to write about? Leave ideas in the comments.
Struggling for a Focus
One of the best things to do to make a blog more readable is to give it some sort of a focus. And let’s face it — if there’s one thing that this blog has lacked all these years, it’s a focus. I tend to ramble about all sorts of nonsense: day-to-day life, mostly. The … Read more
Blargh
I frequently start posts for this blog and then dump them to the trash within four sentences. So if you think my general posts are bad, you should see the shit that doesn’t qualify for publication in this venue. No, seriously. Some of it is bad bad bad. Lately, I don’t have the time or … Read more
Geekery
So the first of the WordPress themes is coming along nicely. I didn’t do a mock-up in Photoshop or anything like that, but I know roughly what I want it to look like. Using the Blueprint framework, Cufón for some of the typography (headers and the blockquote), the Google Fonts API (body copy), and there’ll … Read more