Everything in your past has succeeded in bringing you here today
I started writing online back in 1998, and I’ve been writing ever since. Sometimes I’ve had a break for a few months, but it’s mostly been consistent. During the past 16 years I’ve written over 1,400 posts, which equates to about … Read more …
Are you a regular visitor? Do you keep coming back to see what I’m writing, maybe to see what’s happening with my life? Or maybe you’re just a new visitor, but you’re enjoying what you’ve been reading so far? I’d … Read more …
About a week ago I started moving a few of my websites – including this one – to a new website host here in Melbourne. I was moving away from my normal US host, because I’ve had a number of … Read more …
500 words a day is an important habit when you’re wanting to be a writer – not so much when you don’t care. I wanted to be a good writer, but then one day I decided I should stop wanting … Read more …
I started blogging back in late 1998, shortly after my birthday. Back then it was called ‘online journaling’, and ‘blogging’ didn’t come about until the early 2000’s. I remember thinking at the time that it was such a stupid name … Read more …
I found this awesome web-based app today called Hemingway. It allows you to write or edit an article (copy-pasted), and then it applies colours to the words, sentences or paragraphs. This helps you work out how to improve what you’re … Read more …
Some time ago I had some issues with Disqus as the commenting system. I ended up discovering it had nothing to do with Disqus, but with the background database, where there was a mismatch occurring between some comments and the … Read more …
Last night I started writing a blog post that was called ‘One of the problems with being a Scanner’. It was about how I’m in the process of thinking that my writing isn’t good enough to expect people to want … Read more …
I got this idea from reading about it somewhere else. Basically, you tell me what you’d like me to write about in a comment below. You can suggest a topic, or ask me a question, and I’ll write something about … Read more …
Quite a few of you are regular readers. You either subscribe for email or RSS updates, or you’ve bookmarked this site and it interests you enough to keep coming back. What is it that keeps you coming back? What particular … Read more …
One of the things about my life is that it’s always full of change. Something is always changing, somehow, somewhere. I usually embrace change, because it’s been a part of my life ever since I was born, but sometimes change … Read more …
I found some websites yesterday talking about finding a boss that you’d love to work for instead of simply finding a job. I fell in love with the idea! Everyone out there looking for work is doing it the same … Read more …
One of the things that’s been important to me is simplicity, and even though I’ve tried to use images in my website designs, I’ve always tried to find some kind of balance between simplicity and including imagery. I know that … Read more …