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Wednesday January 7, 2009

So according to the calendar reminder I set myself, on Wednesdays I’m supposed to talk about my ongoing attempts at self-education. I thought that maybe it would be fun to talk about that sort of thing, but it turns out it really isn’t.

So now I need to muster up another topic for Wednesdays, and I’m having some difficulties deciding what to do, or whether I even do want to blog daily. I like the idea of it but there’s no real topic that I care about enough to bother with.

What I need in a calendar application is a way to schedule a randomly recurring event with some finely tunable frequency. Daily blogging, it turns out, kind of isn’t my thing in part because it requires quite a bit of mental mustering to come up with something to say.

Of course, now that I’m actually typing, it’s quite easy to babble for a little while.

On the Stackoverflow podcast Jeff has been encouraging Joel to try shorter form blog posting, and to a certain degree that is something I am going to try too although arguably I am already doing short-form blog posts, especially when compared to Joel’s average content length.

Anyway, one of the primary factors of this particular reboot is to dissuade myself of the opinion that I actually need to present or support any kind of significant thesis in a blog post. As it turns out, I am not an essayist I am a babbler and so shall I babble.

I am going to try to continue doing daily posts, and I am going to leave my current topic-based reminders intact but I am not going to be rigid with the topics because being prompted to blog is good but being constrained to specific topic matter is not.