Memoirs of an English Major

    As a writer, I’m always on the look for a good way to keep track of my thoughts and when I get them. My brain is contently day dreaming and coming up with strange ideas that I know if I don’t write them at that moment, I will lose it. So, how I do it? It all depends on where I am.

    On the computer side or when I’m out and about, I’ve been using Evernote theses days. It’s a great program to write notes on and keep track of stray thoughts. Plus, since it saves to the web, I can access it from anywhere, even my iPhone. It’s been an valuable little app and I’m so glad I signed up for it. Well worth a try if you’re in need of an application just to jot down thoughts.

   If I’m at home and not near a comp, I turn to my trusty notebook. Though it sits by my bedside, it helps at those stray moment of the night to quickly write down an idea, thought, or simply a quote for a character in a story. As I tend to have ideas at the strangest moments, I’ve learned to be prepared.

   I know this post was short, so as a bonus, I’m making my short story ideas public. Check out what strange thoughts go through my head at http://www.evernote.com/pub/vincent404/story-ideas. Check it out.

   Tonight’s posts are simply going to be a couple of plugs. First off, I have a new blog I am part of. For me, I’m looking at it as a tech blog where I think most of my tech article will be. If you’re interested in reading what my friends and I have to say on Tech, check out the Moon-cast blog. If you are familiar with my old podcast, some of the writers will seem familiar. I should have an Entrecard for the blog up as soon as the rest of the other writers are on board.

   As for the second plug, one of my short stories was sent to a contest a while back. It is almost over, but the winners have yet to be announced. In any case, my short work is up at Bebo Author. Feel free to comment, read, and state whatever you wish. Any comment will be read and accepted as such, so please try to be constructive.

  That is all for now. I should have a better post this week.

Hello all. Just installed the wordpress app and thought I would say that I am safe and sound. If you want to keep up to date on my whereabouts, check my twitter page. Till then, later.

     One of my professors always said the thing he gained from college was how to study. What I gained from my college years was my work ethic. Most of my friends are aware of this, but if it’s not apparent, I procrastinate. I’m what some may classify as a slacker. I can’t name the numerous times that because of this, I not only had numerous papers stack up, but was probably late on more things that I would like to admit. I can’t name the amount of times that I was up at two in the morning finishing three papers, fooling myself that if I cycled through each of the papers that I could keep any energy I had at a level that I could at least get the papers in a state that I would be proud of before collapsing for the measly four hours before waking up only to skip the class to finish the paper for that class. Some would call it simple procrastination, but it would become more for me.

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   With the release of Wordpress 2.6 and it’s revision control, this week will mark the end of the wiki. It had a short run, but it was useful in its infancy. The only reason I had done so was to track revision within my major writing project to see how I would develop as a writer and somehow socialize that. And since revision control is on both posts and pages, this serve the purpose the wiki would. So, be ready to see a more integrated look and feel. I recommend to all who are running a Wordpress blog to upgrade. It is really slick and I’m impressed with the changes. Being a long time user of Wordpress (since 1.2), I’m really impressed with the 2.0 line and 2.6 just adds more features that truly make Wordpress a perfect combination of CMS and blogging engine. Well worth the update.

I just can’t resist the Rick Roll

It has been a while since text has hit this blog. For the past couple of posts, I’ve done nothing but link to videos off of Youtube and other sources. Even now, I must keep this a bit shorter than usual. To be honest, I’m in the middle of a redesign and have concentrated my efforts on that. I’m trying to complete all this by the end of the month so that come next month, I can concentrate on getting all my aspects of my portfolio together. In fact, this week should mark a new section to that, a reorganization, and possibly a new theme purely for it. Those are my goals this week and it’s looking that will happen. In any case, I apologize for the lack of updates, but this sort of thing tends to happen when I start getting back into a design groove. Sometime this week, I’ll have a full post, but it won’t be tonight.

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Unlike my previous flash videos, I’ll lead this with some quick text and just say to check out the other works at http://www.notsonoisy.com/. 

I haven’t written a post in a while. I’ve been slightly busy over the past few days working on a redesign for the site. I’ve felt after a year, it’s high time I bust out my CSS, PHP, Javascript, and HTML skills and code my own theme. I’m not sure when it will be done, but hopefully by the end of the month. I will also be re-organizing the portfolio page into more logical sections and other types of work, such as web design and code. But that is for later. For now, a little poem I wrote. The subject of this poem is a strange one and it’s a though that has bugged me for the entire week. Enjoy

Plain, yet stunning

Cold, yet inviting

Silly, yet serious

Strange, yet extraordinary

Insane, yet strangely normal

Annoying, yet captivating

Crude, yet polite

Extremely loud, yet surprisingly quiet.

And I am losing my mind over the whole bloody thing.