A LONG YEAR OF SHAME

Errr....well its been over a year since my last post, and the post before that was an apology for not blogging...  all it needs is one of these:

UNDER CONSTRUCTION

And this blog could be declared legally dead.

But I'm going to try to breath some life back into this thing. To start with I want say why I want to blog:

I've been tinkering with stuff for ever off and on and a MAJOR part of the things I have done has been guidance from the internet. Seriously form using wikipedia to get a back round in something to specific project walk thoughs and tutorials it has been probably my biggest single resource.  Not to mention the hours of just interested browsing of off cool stuff.  Then a while ago I discovered the blog of Charles Guan (e^i(pi)) which has to be one of my favourite reads! (seriously go check out his work). On his About Me  page Charles says:

"As I continued posting content to the site, I began realizing that very few engineers or hobbyists document what they do extensively, especially in a public arena such as the Internet. I found this problematic and somewhat disappointing, since undoubtedly there was alot of redundant work being done retracing the mistakes of other people – something which could be easily avoided if discoveries and solutions were well-documented. Therefore, whenever I run upon something I find curious or interesting, I pitch it on this site." 

The bit about redundant work struck a cord as did the experiences I have had of seeing amazing project on line (say a couple of stills or a youtube video) yet not being able to find any other information on how the thing is built and what makes it go. So with the best laid intentions off I went...

To write 5 blog posts, sigh... thing is I want to write well and be helpful like the best blogs that I consume are but... I really find it hard, I'm dyslexic and while it certainly doesn't stop me (I frequently write large reports during my day job for example) I would never describe the process of writing as "pleasurable", and it slows me down, with writing and spell checking It was taking 3-4 hours on a decent length post to get it to a quality I liked, 3-4 precious hours I could spend actually making things. and so as it was such a large amount of time and not altogether pleasurable it got put off and put off and... well you know.

So now I have come to conclusion I will take an hour a week to blog (regardless of what is happening) and then 10 minutes to clean it up and then post it, I'm hoping this brevity will help me get something up and that it still contains the useful stuff that I want to put up.

Here's hoping...only time will tell if i keep it up

Also I'm not counting this blog post there'll be another post up this weekend.




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