Ben's Busy Blog
My personal online journal of daily accomplishments and setbacks
Lets see if this takes off...Thursday, March 26, 2009
So I've had this blog for a while, not that I've been keeping it up for quite some time. This blog, although personal, is public. I'm not very concerned about making statements on here that would interfere with my personal life, as I'd like to think my internal editor is wise about "Hey, I don't think your wife would appreciate that." The problem was that, be it fair or unfair, your personal blog has become a factor for people making considerations about your professional life. Ouch...
I like to reflect on a lot of different things, many of them completely embarrassing in a professional milieu. I'm well off job-wise at the moment, but internet archives are deep and Google is fast.
But I want to express myself. Furthermore, I like the idea of having something to chart my own progress by, albeit qualitative instead of quantitative. So I'm going to try to bring this back online and see how it does. Wish me luck.
As for content? Well, I went through a phase where I was making an effort to post commentary on games. At the time I was reading a lot of the games critique cognoscenti*: Krpata, "Iroquois Pliskin", Brainy Gamer, etc. I also was posting frequently on the GameSpite boards (founded by Jeremy Parish). Since you are what you eat, I'd gotten a notion that I should try to do that. It wasn't a good fit for me. I wasn't that interested in this. I have a drafts that just died on the shelf. There are plenty of motivated people out there offering their insights on games. I didn't produce much because of what I see as a lack of need both internal and external. Forget that. Game commentary will only come up if I'm moved to do so.
I do want to post about programming and my discovery of programming topics, about my progress with personal programming endeavors, etc. I'll also talk about home improvements and other things, I'm sure.
Furthermore, I know that pretty much nobody but me is guaranteed to read this. That is okay. I'm doing this as a process of self-refinement primarily.
* I say this in loving jest only.
I like to reflect on a lot of different things, many of them completely embarrassing in a professional milieu. I'm well off job-wise at the moment, but internet archives are deep and Google is fast.
But I want to express myself. Furthermore, I like the idea of having something to chart my own progress by, albeit qualitative instead of quantitative. So I'm going to try to bring this back online and see how it does. Wish me luck.
As for content? Well, I went through a phase where I was making an effort to post commentary on games. At the time I was reading a lot of the games critique cognoscenti*: Krpata, "Iroquois Pliskin", Brainy Gamer, etc. I also was posting frequently on the GameSpite boards (founded by Jeremy Parish). Since you are what you eat, I'd gotten a notion that I should try to do that. It wasn't a good fit for me. I wasn't that interested in this. I have a drafts that just died on the shelf. There are plenty of motivated people out there offering their insights on games. I didn't produce much because of what I see as a lack of need both internal and external. Forget that. Game commentary will only come up if I'm moved to do so.
I do want to post about programming and my discovery of programming topics, about my progress with personal programming endeavors, etc. I'll also talk about home improvements and other things, I'm sure.
Furthermore, I know that pretty much nobody but me is guaranteed to read this. That is okay. I'm doing this as a process of self-refinement primarily.
* I say this in loving jest only.
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