Author: paperbackdragon

This evening I was playing Minecraft and feeling that what I was doing was rather dull. I considered looking at open source software for project ideas. For those of you who don’t know, open source software is when a program’s code is free for anyone to look at and add to, usually with a bit of a learning curve. Instead, I realized I have a book to edit, and I should probably get on that. I was going to work on it this summer and barely have. Oops. So here’s a quick blog to get me in the mood.

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So, you know, apparently I can’t post every day. We’ll just have to settle for occasional bursts of posts.

I don’t go back on all my promises on this blog though, as you can see on the left sidebar, I’ve now reached 25 solved problems on Project Euler, and hit their “Level 1”. I consider this a good accomplishment, as some of these problems are pretty tricky. I do get help when I can’t figure it out, but for the most part I try to solve them on my own.

Are you too lazy or too busy?

Yes, this was …

If you could own one thing you don’t currently have, what would it be?

I’ve deliberated over this for a little while now and am realizing there’s not much in the way of material possessions that I want. If you asked me right now what I wanted for Christmas or my birthday, I couldn’t tell you. Everything I seem to want is non-physical and needs time rather than money… more friends, the 3rd draft of my novel, to get to do what I want to at work, to read more, to do more programming in my spare time. I could …

Today I got stuck at work and decided to post a programming question online. Hasn’t been solved yet, but people have been nice about it, and my code is apparently not horrible. This inspired me to look around for forums that I might be able to contribute to. So far I’ve made accounts at stackoverflow.com for programming questions, and writingforums.org for creative writing questions. Haven’t found any programming things I can help with, as many are obscure things you can’t find easily through googling, but I’ve posted a couple times on the creative writing forum and hope it turns out …

So after a two-week break, I’m ready to blog again. Perhaps this is because my days have been fairly uneventful, from a blogging perspective. Just going to work every day, and relaxing in the evenings and on weekends with a pint and some friends, or a video game, or a book. I know this isn’t really a good excuse, there are always things to talk about. That’s why, thanks to WordPress, I think I’ll get back into this daily thing.

I wrote a post a while back based on a prompt from this blog sponsored by WordPress. I haven’t done …