Family guy and web developer
I've added this one to my DailyMuse collection.
There is much that you want to do and much that can be done but fortunately there is much less that really needs to be done.
Don't let the first two categories distract from the third.
— The Stuff on Your List by Michael Wade
Tonight marks the start of one of my Christmas traditions. The annual reading of A Christmas Carol.
Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it. And Scrooge's name was good upon 'Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.
— A Christmas Carol
I received my first copy of the book 30 years ago. I've missed a few readings of it over the years but I haven't missed a reading of it in the last 15 years. The story, the language, the characters, everything about it is fantastic.
Thanks JJ. Great movie!
This is it. The last one of the year folks and what better way to finish this year's Fixie Friday series than with this beautiful Cannondale Track.
Great to see that DuckDuckGo is still growing.
Through Dec. 15, DuckDuckGo received 3.25 billion search queries this year, according to its publicly posted traffic statistics. That’s up 74% over the same period last year. Monday, Dec. 14 was its first day with more than 12 million direct queries.
— DuckDuckGo, the search engine that doesn’t track its users, grew more than 70% this year by Quartz
Although still not in the same league as Google, I think it's only a matter of time before they start to encroach on Google's dominance of the search industry.
Seen the new Moments feature on the Twitter’s website and iOS app. Not that taken with it. Does it work based on location?
All I can say is thank goodness for other apps like Tweetbot that don’t have this and hopefully won’t be including it.
#WelcomeToCanada. Best hashtag ever. Honestly.
Follow the seven steps from Nicholas Bate.
There's no shortcuts or life hacks to this. Just honest work, but it's the best way.
I'll be honest. I'm probably not the ideal person to be giving advice on writing but here's a little bit of advice for those aspiring bloggers and writers who frequently question their own writing much like I do.
Last week I had an idea for a technical article. Over the course of the next few days I outlined the article, wrote a couple of drafts, edited it and then read the final draft back to myself. I hated it. It lacked purpose and it didn't offer enough value to the programmers who would be reading it. In the past I would have simply trashed the article and moved onto something else but is there another way?
In her book "Manage Your Project Portfolio", Johanna Rothman has great advice about evaluating software projects and deciding what action to take with projects.
Once you’ve decided you should do this project, you have a limited number of decisions to make. You can commit to a project, kill a project, or transform a project to increase its chances of success.
This could be equally applied to writing.
I've already mentioned that in the past I would trash any articles that didn't meet the grade. Everything else was published. What about transforming that article into something else though? Could we salvage something from it?
I decided to transform the article rather than killing it. It took a couple of hours but in the end up I had a different style of article on a related topic to my original article. I was happy enough with the final result and its now added to the growing pile of technical articles to be published next year.
When it comes to writing it doesn't need to be publish or trash. If something doesn't meet the grade then consider transforming it into something else. It's definitely worth considering rather than throwing away what could be a potentially great piece of writing.