The Desert of My Dreams

A few weeks ago, I started a new blog over at Blogger to document my weight loss process and my thoughts and feelings about the whole thing. Instead of writing about that stuff here, I thought it might make things more organized if I had a separate blog for that kind of content. […]

I have neglected my blog. Again.
I hate neglecting my blog. There’s an odd sort of guilt associated with it. A bunch of factors are to blame - my various microblogging/social networking efforts (Twitter, Facebook, flickr) and my desire to sensor myself (if only I’m as audacious as I used to be at […]

I’ve somehow missed it yet again - my six year blogiversary!  I started officially blogging on October 1st, 2001.  I’m amazed that I’m still blogging and have somehow managed to turn it into a professional interest.  A lot of things have changed in my life since October 2001 - I don’t live in IL, I’m […]

Hey, look, it’s that time of the year where I apologize for ignoring my blog!  I can’t believe I haven’t blogged for nearly two months!  When I was conducting research in grad school, I didn’t consider blogs to be active if they hadn’t been updated for a month.
I’ve become one of THOSE bloggers.
Alas, I’m not […]

I sat down tonight to actually write a couple of blog posts I’ve been thinking about for a few days. Horrified by the sheer ugliness of my blog skin, I decided to put my web design freak on and redesign the skin. I’m happy to report that even after several years of minimal […]

I know I haven’t been doing a great job of updating this blog lately but the lack of comments on my recent posts is depressing!  I think it is time to have a comment open-mike night.  I’m always curious about who is actually reading this blog (if anyone).  So, if you’re reading this post right […]

During the past few months, I’ve been observing some changes in the blogging behaviors of many of my friends. I’ve been referring to their behavior as microblogging. I thought I was onto something new but a quick Live search reveals that the term has been floating around for awhile (just when I thought I had […]

Since Akismet does a pretty good job controlling comment spam (it misses one or two every now and then) and I haven’t had any problems recently with abusive comments, I’ve removed comment moderation. That means that as long as you provide your name and email address, I don’t have to approve your comment for […]

I started officially blogging on October 1, 2001. I had started adding updates to my personal website as early as December 2000 but I only became familiar with blogs (and actually figured out that what I was doing had a name) around September 2001.
It’s hard to believe that I’ve been blogging for […]

I’ve been thinking about starting a new blog to contain my thoughts about social software, HCI, and user experience. Some of the content will be my latest ideas about the field, reviews of the latest services I’ve been playing with, and some of my del.icio.us links (but with expanded commentary). So my question […]