Blogging

Published January 25, 2010 | By admin

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Reason Not To Blog: I have to work to put food on the table.

But that is no longer something I can trick myself into thinking any more. I get lost. There are times after a bout of staring at the same php code day after day that I just snap and can’t look at it any more.

It is not a snap, really. I just get easily distracted when I get burnt out and just let myself go with the flow. Because anything is better than going back to that mind numbing code. Read more... (991 words, 2 images, estimated 3:58 mins reading time)

Posted in Blogging | Tagged Add new tag, Day job, Rat race | 7 Comments

There Is No Killer App

Published January 21, 2010 | By admin

Reason Not to Blog #3: I just can’t find the right tool.

There is no killer application that will do everything for you. Quit searching. This is something I have to tell myself often but I forget.

I will start something new as a beginner and make great strides and I will always mess it up by looking for tools to help me do the work.

I will get just that close to a blogging schedule, then I will go looking for software to make it easy. Read more... (465 words, 1 image, estimated 1:52 mins reading time)

Posted in Blogging, Software | Tagged lifehacking, productivity software, Software, Time management | 5 Comments

The Pressure of Rules

Published January 19, 2010 | By admin

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Reason Not to Blog #1: There are too many rules

I almost did it. I almost didn’t write today. I woke up less than motivated. Why? Because I did not get some work done last night and I am feeling a bit guilty. see I have turned myself into a slave to hourly work again and since I care about my work it bums me out. Every hour I spend working on a project makes me more money, but the hours I need to work keep increasing. I am getting burned out on building cracker boxes. Read more... (712 words, 2 images, estimated 2:51 mins reading time)

Posted in Blogging, Writing, ZTD | Tagged blogging rules, no rules, Reasons Not to Blog | 10 Comments

Just Write An Email

Published May 29, 2009 | By admin

Cover of "The Daring Young Man on the Fly...

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I wrote this article a long time ago, before I had a blog. It references Outlook, so it had to be a while ago. I haven’t used Outlook in a long time.

After reading the about William Saroyan and how he wrote The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze by writing a story a day for 30 days, I wrote 30 articles in the same time and spread them all over the internet. Read more... (894 words, 2 images, estimated 3:35 mins reading time)

Posted in Blogging, Writing | Tagged Blogging, Writing | 23 Comments

The Changes at Bloghology Social Network

Published February 11, 2009 | By admin

Despite being immersed in the internet for 12 hours a day at times, I am not quite sure of the definition of a social network. Some are for bookmarks, some for articles and some for liking and commenting. My definition now is a site that I don’t own and I can put stuff on. What makes it social is that other people can see it. I was going to add “and interact”, but I don’t think that is necessarily a common denominator. Read more... (502 words, 3 images, estimated 2:00 mins reading time)

Posted in Blogging, Social Media | Tagged bloghology, Social network | 16 Comments

One Way to Speed Up Your Feed Reading

Published December 29, 2008 | By admin

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A feed reader is supposed to speed things up. You donâ€™t have to visit the blog to read whatâ€™s been published.

Thatâ€™s how mine started and somehow I have managed to collect over 2000 feeds which I have categorized along the way: Read more... (428 words, 3 images, estimated 1:43 mins reading time)