31fps by Sam Purtill A blog about business, technology, and life

A Year of Blogging

I began my blog on May 12th, 2006, so this post is two days late. Reason being I was up in Tahoe for Nate Pina's bachelor party (getting married in 6 more days!)

Let's reminisce on a full year of blogging for a second. Blogging has done a few things for me so far.

1) Help me become a better writer
I can articulate my thoughts much better because I write on a regular basis. The more you write, the easier it is to write, the faster you write, blah blah blah (I'm tired from the bachelor party last night, don't feel like being articulate tonight).

2) Proved to myself that I can do something for a whole year straight and not give up
I really wanted to see if I could actually stick to something for a year straight, and I was able to. Sure, there were weeks here and there where I didn't blog, but I never went for more than two weeks (when I was developing for ClassOwl) without a post. But I actually did it! Yay!

3) Helped me stay in touch with my readers
When I say readers, I mean my loyal readers -- Bubbie & Grandpa. Aunt Martha deserves a mention here too. But everyone else reads it really sporadically -- which I completely am OK with, my voice carries no weight... yet.

4) Helped me stay in touch with my family
Sometimes it is sooo hard for me to get up and walk outside of my bedroom to say hi to the earthlings I call my siblings. And also those... creatures... that happen to come around the house every now and then, my parents. Ok this one is totally a joke.

5) Helped me overcome writer's block for school papers
Sometimes when I'm doing homework, I really can't think of what to write. 99% of the time this is due to the fact that the essays that they make you write in high school are absolutely PATHETIC. I would never encounter writer's block if I was writing a paper on something interesting. Maybe comparing JavaScript with ActionScript, or even a research paper on why Python developers are exponentially smarter than Java developers. Something like that would cure me, but no, we have to write papers on our "civic responsibility". Heh heh heh, don't want to rant anymore.

6) I can BS everything so much better
Every paper I write for school now I can completely BS with paragraphs that go on and on about nothing, yet my teachers always write comments on my papers on how they "enjoy" my writing. Too bad I was minimizing the OpenOffice Writer window every 30 seconds and writing code for ClassOwl ;)

To sum it all up: yes, it's been worth it. Blogging is here to stay for me.

And so is the FREE FLOW OF INFORMATION!

I just added a book to my book list that I keep on my blog. I've actually been able to read a lot more than I thought I was able to in the last year, and it hasn't been too hard. Hmm, I guess I'm starting to get older or something :(