I missed the tradition end of year round-up for 2011 so I thought I’d get in quickly for 2012. Also this post is going to be self indulgent and rambling much like all my other ones, it also isn’t really about anything.
Once more I’m battling with writing, in that I want to write but utterly hate the process and find it soul crushingly difficult. Actually I have no idea why I want to write other than it seems a good way of tracking what I’m thinking and looking back at all the plans I had that didn’t come to anything. From various people I’ve heard that getting over the horror of writing is just a case of sitting down and doing it regularly and after 8 to 10 years it gets a little bit easier. Looking forward to that.
Week Notes worked well for me last year and I was going to start again this year, a project deadline put pay to that but now it’s out the way I could get back into the swing of things.
@rooreynolds is trying out a (Weekly? Daily?) newsletter thing and @FinalBullet has a monthly one both* of which seem like scary commitments to me. I can just assume that no-one reads this blog, if I knew people actually read it then I’d have to make more of an effort. Meanwhile @currybet keeps a gruelling blog posting schedule going with near daily posts, for which I could totally poke him in the eye if I wasn’t too busy being in awe. And most of my other friends seem to be able to knock out a decent blog post once a week or so. Anyway, somehow I’m going to try to write more often, again.
Other things that I’m planning…
A list so I can laugh at it in 2013
- Write more often
- Clean up my hard drive of folders like “Temp3″ and “Desktop Junk.old” and keep it tidy
- Keep all my personal projects public on GitHub, even though I haven’t run them through a Linter yet and the code is terribly embarrassing
- Build the Guardian News Ambient 24 Hour Radio Station that I’ve been thinking about for the last 2 years (more on this in another post)
- Fix the other Guardian toys I’ve been writing
- Make new ones
- Rewrite Ant Attack in javascript
- Publish all my Snakes & Ladders code and results, finally
- Maybe record some podcasts/video things
- Actually create the 2012 Lunar Wheel Calendar I should have done by now
- Start running again
- Start swimming again
- Do some more work with The Long Good Read and update it’s code
- Learn how to use apostrophes
- Pick up the work I was doing on the Zeitgeist at the Guardian
- Build a friendly/simple interface to the Guardian Content API
- Make more Books
- Make more Magazines
- Make more Newspapers
- Make some things with Moo cards
- Revive the Liveblog-o-matic
Things I have done so far…
- Moved work GitHub repositories over to work’s git thingy, so I can now remove them (they were private) from my own account. This was a function of not having VPN access to work, really glad I have work code in the correct place now o_O
- Finished version 1 of sekrit Guardian project, that has potential to be awesome if pushed right
- Written some blog posts about Instagram and Flickr that were quite popular
- Put up some shelves
Errr, and that’s it.
And thus ends the blog post in which I once more use too many words to say too little that too far too long to write.
*That both Roo & Leila should be doing the newsletter thing should come as no surprise considering they live together in the Shift Run Stop house, which is like the Big Breakfast house but with less Paula Yates and more Dave Green.
I’d be so with you on doing Ant Attack in JavaScript.
That’d be FUN