50% Through Blog Month

Today is exactly half way though my blog month. Let's see how I've done so far:

 

Date	Minutes	Words	Words/Minute
2/1	150	701	4.6
2/2	70	504	7.2
2/3	67	615	9.2
2/4	37	579	15.6
2/5	58	645	11.1
2/6	49	562	11.5
2/7	33	575	17.4
2/8	48	706	14.7
2/9	36	545	15.1
2/10	44	680	15.5
2/11	57	831	14.5
2/13	55	1010	18.4

 

And here's a graphs of my writing speed over time:

That makes me happy. I'm getting faster at writing. I did miss a day though. D'oh. Well, I wrote a really long one the next day to make up for it.

 

The hardest part of writing so much is finding interesting thing to write about. I dread writing because it's hard to find topics. I find that I spend some time on the day before trying to find something interesting. I think that I should do interesting things just so that I can blog about them. Once I'm writing I'm ok. That's actually cool because when I started the actual writing part was difficult. Now it's easy to write the words, just hard to find the subjects. I think the quality of my writing has gone down a little over the time. I don't spend enough time formulating my arguments or working on awkward sentences.

 

Emailing to post my blog seems to have broken. I dunno, it worked for most of the days and then it failed all of a sudden with no errors for the last 3 posts. It's really hard to post emails because they have line breaks in them and blogger puts <br> for line breaks which means that the paragraphs are all funny spaced. So I have to remove all the newlines in the email by copying the source html to a program that can delete newlines. Word and Visual Studio can do it. In Visual Studio I need to enter "regular expression mode" which is annoying because the next time I run a find operation it's still in regular expression mode which isn't what I want. Well, I changed the email address on blogger so maybe that kicked it enough so email posting will work. Wish me luck.

 

I use Word to count the number of words in my blog. I copy and paste the text to Word and then go file->properties->statistics. That part is actually really fast. I like that Word boots instantly.

 

I'm looking forward to the end of this month. Writing blogs everyday is too much. I think it's good for my writing speed, but the blogs aren't always interesting to read. Next month I'll write far fewer blogs but I'll think about each one more.

 

Well, this blog isn't quite long enough yet and I've kinda run out of things to say about blogging. So let's talk for a sec about photography. I downloaded ACDSee last night after writing my blog. It's pretty good. It can import pictures from my camera and from my USB reader. I can almost get it to name the files the way I want to. It will put the picture date in front of the file name. This is good because it makes the file name unique and it will also sort correctly when we're taking pictures with two cameras. I can't get it to not put spaces in the file name and it will only do it in 12-hour format. Oh well, close enough I think. And it's got bug where if ACDSee is open to the directory where you are importing, it fails to rename the files. Yeah, great. But it's the best so far, so I'll try it out for the next month.