i just sit here and blog all day
a many posts ago, i floated the idea of having another blog to talk about work. i would clarify that now to say "talk about technologies, methodologies, and news concerning software systems development." some of it would be things i encounter and deal with at work, other stuff would be issues i discover doing my own research.
initially, i had envisioned something like a weekly article. i now have my first two article ideas, and am able to do some quick estimating.
i do most of my blogging with no direct access to the internet. i jump online and post after i'm done writing it. this limits the kinds of things i can write about, because any research i do has to be done up front. i've installed an http cache on my laptop, so i can at least look at cached sites while i'm offline, but certain articles require lots of searching, reading, cutting, and pasting from online sources. i can't write these in my "normal" blogging time slot.
both of the articles i've cooked up not only require access to the internet, but i need access to my library as well. which means i can only work on them at home. further, i estimate each article will take about 6 hours to write. so i need to pick whether to work less or sleep less. i'm cranky when i don't sleep, but i feel pretty good about working less...
i'm not ready to move other things off my goal list to make that kind of time every week. if i weren't commuting, i could use the "misc" hour i now spend riding home to work on this. that misc hour is already filled with similiar tasks, just scaled down for lack of internet.
like many things i work on, investing time in writing these articles isn't at the exclusion of other things. the research and testing i might do for an article can also be applied to other areas of interest. i actually see the articles as catalysts for inspiring other kinds of work.
so i'm going to write up a few of them, see how long it takes me, and shoot for something about once a month. which means i need to find other people to blog with. good thing i started doing that yesterday. ;)
initially, i had envisioned something like a weekly article. i now have my first two article ideas, and am able to do some quick estimating.
i do most of my blogging with no direct access to the internet. i jump online and post after i'm done writing it. this limits the kinds of things i can write about, because any research i do has to be done up front. i've installed an http cache on my laptop, so i can at least look at cached sites while i'm offline, but certain articles require lots of searching, reading, cutting, and pasting from online sources. i can't write these in my "normal" blogging time slot.
both of the articles i've cooked up not only require access to the internet, but i need access to my library as well. which means i can only work on them at home. further, i estimate each article will take about 6 hours to write. so i need to pick whether to work less or sleep less. i'm cranky when i don't sleep, but i feel pretty good about working less...
i'm not ready to move other things off my goal list to make that kind of time every week. if i weren't commuting, i could use the "misc" hour i now spend riding home to work on this. that misc hour is already filled with similiar tasks, just scaled down for lack of internet.
like many things i work on, investing time in writing these articles isn't at the exclusion of other things. the research and testing i might do for an article can also be applied to other areas of interest. i actually see the articles as catalysts for inspiring other kinds of work.
so i'm going to write up a few of them, see how long it takes me, and shoot for something about once a month. which means i need to find other people to blog with. good thing i started doing that yesterday. ;)