It seems I have 5 draft posts already in the queue, although one has been there for months and doesn’t really count. I should try to get some of them out into the wild.
I also have several other ideas already. For one, I want to say a few things about Jacob Nielsen’s thoughts on weblog usability. Luckily, Angel and Joy have made it easier for me.
I did a few hours research yesterday on the whole "confessor" conundrum which I need to finish writing up.
There are a few other things rolling around in the back of my head that now and again roll to the front before disappearing again. Maybe they should stew for a while, although they’re more likely to disappear.
I also have homework that I just am not in the mood to do. Project stuff for nearer to the end of the semester. Of course, the smart and diligent thing to do would be to work on it now.
Also have a bunch of HTML/CSS pages to clean up for a class as part my assistantship. But it’s such a cool, grey, rainy day out there and motivation is hard to come by, especially on 3/4s of a cup of coffee. But my fellow schoolmates, and an instructor, are counting on me to "hop to," so I’ll just have to hop into the recliner and get busy sometime in the next 4-5 hours.
Roy Tennant’s coming to UIUC tomorrow. I’ll be going to his lecture, "The Academic Library in a Googlezon World," and also the informal meeting with the ASIS&T student group.
Ah well, off to get more coffee and try to get motivated. I purposefully committed a few of Nielsen’s "sins" here so maybe I’ll start on that.
“It seems I have 5 draft posts already in the queue…”
What a simple and useful idea! I usually just write a post when I get the time, and I’m always amazed at people that put together such thoughtful and seemingly well-planned out posts (present company included). I thought you all sat down for an hour or so and put those together. I guess some people actually do, but saving drafts is a great idea too. I think I’ll start a few lists, save them as drafts, and keep adding until I get something substantial. Thanks for the inadvertent tip Mark!
Hi Lindsey,
Sorry about the slow response! Seems I missed your comment somehow.
You are certainly welcome to the inadvertent idea about drafts. In effect, I was actually complaining about them. ;-> I do usually sit down and spend an hour (or more sometimes) crafting a post. If I don’t think I’m going to get something completed fairly quickly then I’ll usually start it as a text file. That has issues though because it makes adding links, etc. more difficult and perhaps repetitious. I either need to write it in quasi-HTML or else I have serious reformatting issues when I paste it into TypePad.
I did start a few as drafts though that I had intended to get finished over a couple of days; now it has been a few weeks.
Keep up the great work over at I Like Dust, and at school, of course.
Cheers,
Mark