The blog post I wrote on feminism did it’s job – it made me think, made me revise some views, hopefully making me a better person, and inspired one of the most interesting comments discussions I’ve seen on my blog. I want to be writing one post of about that scale/length a fortnight this year, and ideally once a week. I need to come up with a list of topics for myself.

Progress on personal blogging-related project: very limited. It’s the sort of thing that requires me to have entire hours spare to sit and chip away at it, and I just haven’t had those this week – Testament has eaten them all.

Gym visits: none. Breaking this streak is priority one next week.
Number of links bookmarked on delicious: 6
Album of the week: John Barleycorn Reborn, on constant play on the bus.

I thought I’d try and adapt them for my own use this year. I’m going to aim to publish them on a Friday night/Saturday morning, with details of what I’ve been up to. I’m sure the format will evolve a bit over the year, but for now, I’m just going to ramble a bit.

The year’s starting at a reasonable pace, I guess. Out socialising with Andrew and Marysia on Saturday, which was lovely, a quiet day on Sunday, and back to work on Monday. Work this week has been a mix of sweeping up those last few things that didn’t get done at a the tail end of last year, a few small jobs that were scheduled for this week, and a bit of thinking about new projects that we’re hoping to be working on in the early part of the year. I’m a bit constrained by what I can say about work on this blog, obviously, so I’ll probably only note work here in passing, or when it’s particularly relevant and something big or interesting has happened.

The major theme for this week has been Testament prep – getting things ready, fielding questions from players, and so on. The new LARP I’m running starts on Sunday, and I’ve still not got all the associated web gubbins built, but I’ve made solid progress tonight, and will spend tomorrow afternoon on it, and it should be ready by about Tuesday, which is about when I would want to send out usernames and passwords. Fingers crossed.

I’ve also spent a bit of time on blog-related matters. I’ve got a decent length post here at the final edits stage, and I finally bought the Basic Maths theme, for use on ala.sda.ir, I started work on personal project that I’ll tell you all about later in the year, and I’m thinking about simply moving all my crap onto a single blog, rather than keeping it scattered across half a dozen blogs and LJ, but I need to actually make some plans about how I’d do that, which domain I’d use, and so on and so forth. Next job on that front is to ressurect my photography portfolio website – the domain lapsed, and it just needs bringing back on a new domain, and to move the primary venue for my photoblog off LJ, and onto a domain of its own.

Other useful metrics, that I may or may not track though the year:
Gym vists: 0. Utter Fail. Must do better.
Album of the week (according to last.fm, based on most number of listens): Zoe Keating – One Cello X 16: Natoma
Number of links bookmarked on delicious: 7