Although I have enjoyed posting my blog here in Blogger, the recent downtimes posted by this service pose a serious obstacle for my recent endeavor - A Blog Day For The Rest Of The Year
Because of the yesterday's unscheduled unavailability of the service I could not post the blog for Thursday making it the first failure for this literary adventure. To make sure such interruptions don't occur again and keep yesterday's mishap the first and last one, I have decided to move the blog to a different hosting service.
It is with excitement and little sadness I am informing you today this blog has been moved to WordPress. All the existing blogs have been moved over there along with your comments. The layout is more stripped down and more minimal than ever before.
Here is the link to the new home of my blogs:
http://scriblinmind.wordpress.com
I hope you will update your bookmarks and continue your support.
Also this counts as today's post :)
5 down. 360 more to go. See you tomorrow.
Friday, May 13, 2011
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Habits are hard!!
Just got back from work. To be honest, I was not sure if I would keep up my newly taken quest in blogging. For some reason everyday when i get home from work I feel pretty tired and sleepy. This is weird because I work at a desk, a regular 9:15 to 5.45 software developer job, with literally zero sweating involved, even in Arizona.
But for some reason I feel completely drained out when I get home. I used to workout a bit in the evenings after work and whenever it was time to hit the gym it was an impossible fight between laziness+sleep and workout+health. I missed a lot of workouts because of this.
Now, all I have to do is login into my blogspot account and type some words and punctuations and i'll be done. But even for that I have to summon every single ounce of determination and drag my ass to the key board.
I should read up some stuff regarding this phenomenon. Is it just me or does it happen to other people as well, like you? Let me know if you experience similar lethargy after work for no apparent reason. How do you fight it? Coffee? Loud music? YouTube Ninjas? If you have already found the miracle solution for the problem don't forget to spread the word.
My eyelids are refusing to stay open..I shall hit the sack for a few.
3 done. 362 to go. See you tomorrow.
But for some reason I feel completely drained out when I get home. I used to workout a bit in the evenings after work and whenever it was time to hit the gym it was an impossible fight between laziness+sleep and workout+health. I missed a lot of workouts because of this.
Now, all I have to do is login into my blogspot account and type some words and punctuations and i'll be done. But even for that I have to summon every single ounce of determination and drag my ass to the key board.
I should read up some stuff regarding this phenomenon. Is it just me or does it happen to other people as well, like you? Let me know if you experience similar lethargy after work for no apparent reason. How do you fight it? Coffee? Loud music? YouTube Ninjas? If you have already found the miracle solution for the problem don't forget to spread the word.
My eyelids are refusing to stay open..I shall hit the sack for a few.
3 done. 362 to go. See you tomorrow.
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Bigger, Longer and Orangier
Continuing my yesterday's promise, this is the second out of 365 posts that shall be expected over the course of the next three hundred and sixty five days, starting yesterday.
You may have noticed a few changes in the blog layout. Its much more cleaner with content clearly separated and there are no more annoying Ad-sense banners. I wasn't getting any money from them anyway. Apparently one needs a lot people visiting their page in order for Google to pay one for those banners. I call that Bullocks (ask your British/pretentious friends). The Blog is also orange now, for the most part. I have been reading quite a few articles on minimalistic design and sticking to some of the stuff I picked up I have removed items that, I thought, were not adding value to the visitors. I thought about going all white, but found that to be a bit too pale for my taste. So orange it is. If you develop some kind of Citrus based juice addiction after being here for a while, I assume no responsibility.
You are probably dying
to know why this sudden shift from complete dormancy to hyper-active blog-post release cycle which is my current goal simply put as "a blog a day". This all is a result of something I read recently. I would not bore you with the details. I cant give you the details even if I wanted to since I obtained that article using what the law enforcement community might refer as 'dumb move' methods.
But the crux of the article was
"What you do everyday is more important than what you do once in a while".
A long time ago I found out that blogging can be a great way to get those crazy thing swirling in my head out in the open so that other people out in the Internets would realize there a people weirder than thyself. But over the last year and half or so, I have kind of lost the thread with this page. I knew I had a responsibility to deliver quality mind-swirls to my readers (you know who you are!!) but simply couldn't bring myself to produce the content in timely and consistent fashion.
One of the authors I have been reading in recent times is Leo Babauta up in his world famous super-awesome blog www.zenhabits.net. He says if you fall out of the track, even if you never were on a track in the first place, the best time get back on is right now.
Now combining the "everyday" theory with "do-it-now" theory we get what is a simple and straight forward way to develop and maintain a pretty good routine. The third ingredient that adds a whole new dimension to this already belligerent plan is the good old American battle cry "Go Big or Go Home". Want to be proud of doing something? Grow some balls and show it in the State Fair!!
And thus we have arrived at the blog-a-day marathon of mine :)
2 done. 363 to go. See you tomorrow.
You may have noticed a few changes in the blog layout. Its much more cleaner with content clearly separated and there are no more annoying Ad-sense banners. I wasn't getting any money from them anyway. Apparently one needs a lot people visiting their page in order for Google to pay one for those banners. I call that Bullocks (ask your British/pretentious friends). The Blog is also orange now, for the most part. I have been reading quite a few articles on minimalistic design and sticking to some of the stuff I picked up I have removed items that, I thought, were not adding value to the visitors. I thought about going all white, but found that to be a bit too pale for my taste. So orange it is. If you develop some kind of Citrus based juice addiction after being here for a while, I assume no responsibility.
You are probably dying
to know why this sudden shift from complete dormancy to hyper-active blog-post release cycle which is my current goal simply put as "a blog a day". This all is a result of something I read recently. I would not bore you with the details. I cant give you the details even if I wanted to since I obtained that article using what the law enforcement community might refer as 'dumb move' methods.
But the crux of the article was
"What you do everyday is more important than what you do once in a while".
A long time ago I found out that blogging can be a great way to get those crazy thing swirling in my head out in the open so that other people out in the Internets would realize there a people weirder than thyself. But over the last year and half or so, I have kind of lost the thread with this page. I knew I had a responsibility to deliver quality mind-swirls to my readers (you know who you are!!) but simply couldn't bring myself to produce the content in timely and consistent fashion.
One of the authors I have been reading in recent times is Leo Babauta up in his world famous super-awesome blog www.zenhabits.net. He says if you fall out of the track, even if you never were on a track in the first place, the best time get back on is right now.
Now combining the "everyday" theory with "do-it-now" theory we get what is a simple and straight forward way to develop and maintain a pretty good routine. The third ingredient that adds a whole new dimension to this already belligerent plan is the good old American battle cry "Go Big or Go Home". Want to be proud of doing something? Grow some balls and show it in the State Fair!!
And thus we have arrived at the blog-a-day marathon of mine :)
2 done. 363 to go. See you tomorrow.
Monday, May 9, 2011
Ready or not, I don't care!!
Here is my promise to every single living being with reading skills and free Internet access that I will be posting a new blog, however short, narccisstic and misguided it might be,every single day for a year, starting today.
You are welcome Internetsters.
You are welcome Internetsters.
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