ezyang's blog

I did one of these for 2008, and it was highly amusing to see some of the goals I had put down that, in fact, I do not care at all about in the middle of my sophomore year in college. (For a more technically oriented one, see “Get PHP to compile with VS2008”… ick.) They are not quite resolutions, because I know enough that to actually get things done I should set schedules. These are tendencies; guiding principles for the New Year. Things to make habits. Things that are hard.

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This social experiment has already hit number four Google spot for “Iron Blogger,” and there’s no reason it shouldn’t rise any higher. Iron Blogger is an experiment in beer (well, not quite for me), blogging, and peer pressure.

Since we’re on the topic of blogging, and why people (including myself) can’t seem to do it, we might as well look over the aborted attempts at blogging that I’ve had over the years.

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