Hi. I can't sleep, so the obvious twenty-first century reaction is to write about it on the Internet. Over the past month had a week-long spot of what I will assert was the flu (although there was what seemed like a lot of coughing and sore throat) which has left me with a lot of time for ruminating and less ability for coherent thought or motivation to actually write any code or English.
It's not that I don't have anything to say; I have seven unfinished blog entries, counting three things which are merely titles as placeholders for things that live mostly in my head (one of them is about why that is a bad idea :-), and one political rant that I needed to get out of my head but likely will never show to anyone else, it's just that I am having my perennial difficulty in finding the time and words to say it.
Empirically, the many of the people who get ahead in white-collar careers such as professional computer-geekery do so more by their communication skills than anything else. Admittedly, a software engineer who can put out millions (hyperbole warning) of lines of bug-free code will also be highly valued, but those lines of code are less far useful than they could be if she can't coherently explain what they do. But the highly-paid, highly-respected alpha-geeks seem to universally good at getting the word out, at least the ones I've heard of (which I think is a relevant filter...)
So I need to learn to communicate more and better. At least partially, this blog/journal is a means to that end, as I have observed before. It should also be a vehicle for disseminating the occasional good idea that comes crawling out of my brain (and, to be sure, the bad ones, but then other people can filter them.) It should also eventually be my contribution to the global google attention economy, but it seems that I have to make posting links to things I come across on the web even easier than it is now if that's really going to happen.
With some of the technical stuff I'm wavering on whether I should use the code I wrote earlier to avoid posting it to livejournal (amusing that I had to write more code to not post it..) or just put the cut at the beginning to avoid boring people. I guess I'll burn that bridge once I've actually written something relevant.
