September 24, 2010 by Prasanna
Shawn Blanc on his writing process
It would be better to write 5,000 words and edit them down into a 2,000-word article than to write 500 words and force more in an attempt to build it up.
Spot on.
I really hope universities stop using number of words as a constraint for papers and essays. When in university, most of the time, I used to write what I wanted to, then paraphrase it to bring it to the prescribed number of words. This is the exact opposite of what students should be learning. They should learn to express what they want to, in the most concise and non-bullshit way possible.
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September 15, 2010 by Prasanna
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September 7, 2010 by Prasanna
This after noon I opened my Simplenote at work, and found this new entry that I hadn’t added.
Leisure
William Henry Davies
What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.
No time to stand beneath the boughs
And stare as long as sheep or cows.
No time to see, when woods we pass,
Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass.
No time to see, in broad daylight,
Streams full of stars, like skies at night.
No time to turn at Beauty’s glance,
And watch her feet, how they can dance.
No time to wait till her mouth can
Enrich that smile her eyes began
A poor life this if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.
This is mom’s favorite poem. I have come to expect her to recite the first line, every time I am too stressed or not seeing the big picture at times.
And yesterday, she got my brother to search for it and save it for her to read fully. He saved it in my Simplenote.
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September 2, 2010 by Prasanna
I guess this was inevitable. We will miss you bit.ly.
Update 2: t.co URL wrapping
In the coming weeks, we will be expanding the roll-out of our link wrapping service t.co, which wraps links in Tweets with a new, simplified link. Wrapped links are displayed in a way that is easier to read, with the actual domain and part of the URL showing, so that you know what you are clicking on. When you click on a wrapped link, your request will pass through the Twitter service to check if the destination site is known to contain malware, and we then will forward you on to the destination URL. All of that should happen in an instant.
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