Lately, or maybe not so lately, the last couple of years really, my writing started suffering. Not enough time to write, not enough motivation to do so when I made the time. Many excuses, some of them valid, most of them just another “reason” to procrastinate. You might remember my previous entry where I was complaining about the lack of engaging content in general on the web. While I was writing that, I realised that I am part of the problem too, one of the majority of people who has stopped producing and just leeches content. Around the same time I came across project 52 which in short is a pledge to commit to producing at least one piece of content a week, every week, for the rest of the year.
With the New Year and the new decade dawning upon us I decided that this commitment would be the perfect kick up the bottom I needed to get back into my writing, even if it is only for me. While away on holiday I decided that although I am aiming for 52 entries this year, that number should be the accepted minimum and not what I should be aspiring to. I guess what I am trying to say is that I hope to keep the site updated more often than that.
Choosing a specific topic to deal with during #p52 got me thinking even more. My interests are quite geeky but still diverse within the limits of this geekiness, so I did not want to bind myself to a specific subject matter. If, or more appropriately when I lost interest in what currently fascinates me, my commitment to writing would wane too. That’s when the idea formulated in my head to use the weekly entry to take this blog back to its roots. The personal, the ranting space, the place where I talk about my days, record my moods and thoughts, exactly what this blog used to be.
So here you go. My first entry for #p52 turns out to be this one. The one where I commit to myself and you that I’ll keep you updated with what’s going on in my life and my head for the whole of this year. With this plan in mind and in view of the new year I thought the best image for this entry would be the rainbow I shot on from the car on our drive to Athens on Sunday afternoon. Rainbows always fill me with happiness & hope and that is the feeling I am currently having.
I’m very interested to read the thoughts of all the other people that are taking part in this exercise, especially the ones I know. I think it will be a great way to find people with similar interests and goals which I might have not come across otherwise. After all isn’t that the way we used to “socially network” in the past? Via blogs and comments and conversations? And then came facebook and twitter….
twitter is having some oauth changes, twits will appear again here shortly
Follow me on twitterI have a dream that all my websites will one day exist in a Web where they will not be judged by how they look and behave in each browser, because all browsers will follow the same standards and display them the same.
This is my hope. With this faith in Web Standards and Accessibility for all people and devices we will be able to make a better Web. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of the browsers to a beautiful symphony of design, functionality and content. With this faith we will be able to work better, to play better, to struggle less, knowing that all devices will treat our work equally & with respect.
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