Tag: writing
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On growing up and becoming jaded
When you’re creative and in college (and possibly even earlier than that), you’re filled with enthusiasm, optimism and ideas. Ideas that you believe to be the most important things in the world. At a certain point, the optimism fades, the enthusiasm fades, and what’s left is bitterness. We’re told that this is called “growing up”…
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Slow progress
A while ago I wrote about slowing down. What could be slower than a few days camping in the desert? No internet, the phones died our second night there, nothing to actively distract or divert. In my last post, I wrote that I hoped the process of slowing down my internet (and media) consumption would…
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Programmatic poetry
I was working on a WordPress plugin today that will allow users/developers to stop a javascript from running on a particular page. That doesn’t sound very exciting, but it got me thinking about the WordPress adage “code is poetry”. (Blame this on my recent initiative for going slow — I had this idea when I…
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Post a Week 2011: Blogging year in review
This year, I participated in WordPress.com’s Post a Week Challenge. Well, how’d I do? I was using Joost de Valk‘s Blog Metrics plugin, but that only tells you how you’re doing overall and how you’ve done in the last 30 days and, while I could have logged how many posts there were on January 1…
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[RPM2011] Seeing how the other half lives
What I learned about making music for the RPM Challenge this week.