Observant readers may notice a new menu item over on the top right: Walks. This is the story of how that came to be. And how much further I have to go.
Originally published 10-03-2008
Little and often has such appeal. Write 500 words a day and you'll have a decent sized book, with revisions, in under a year. With weekends off. Scan 10 slides an evening and before you know it those giant boxes of unsorted im...
A lot of people seem to be talking about writing; more often, more thoughtfully, more purposefully. Jeremy Keith which, in their several ways, make the point that writing regularly is a habit, that it may help others but mostly helps yourself and that you should write whatever you want. All good and true. None of the people Jeremy singled out says much about setting constraints, except perhaps for Patrick Rhone's plea that anything over 280 characters should be "on a blog that you own". Recently, however, I have seen other people remark on the value of a set constraint, usually a number of words. The morning brain dump folks set a minimum of 750 words, and no maximum. Others like a set number of words, no more, no fewer. And that reminded me that ages ago, when blogging was still new and exciting, I took part in a little challenge.
No June, because holidays, travel and offlineness. No July, for the same reasons, plus even before the month had ended I was deep into ...
... August, in which I did almost only one thing, and did it well, with great satisfaction.
Quite a few people, online friends and unknowns, discovered today that they won't easily be able to syndicate from their WordPress websites to their Facebook profile page, at least not automatically. There is a lot of hurt anger and confusion -- why didn't WP say something earlier? Why is FB doing t...
