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If you read read the last post you should have already updated bookmarks, etc. But just in case, my blog is now here, and should stay there for a long while.

I’ll be migrating this blog over to our new server for the sprouts over the next few days. The URL http://alecresnick.org will point there, but if you’re interested in checking it out in the meantime, head on over to http://aresnick.blogs.thesprouts.org.

So for the past couple weeks, I’ve been putting together what will be the next version of my blog and site. Rather than just using it as a soapbox and place to write, I’m working to make my website more about my management of information and profitable sharing of ideas and workflow. But, in working on sprout, I’ve been writing and reading and coding a bunch with Shaunalynn and Nagle, which has left me little time to keep up with my personal writing and reading. But! I’m aiming to change that this week. Hopefully, that means that in the next couple weeks, you should see a shift to a new domain and the initial trickle of a steady flow of content (and not just my del.icio.us bookmarks).

I feel more empowered by the thought that, for my ambitions, work and talent are interchangeable, than by the knowledge that I am capable of acquiring any talent.

As I said earlier, I’ll be declaring weekly a topic that I’ll spend that week focusing on, hopefully culminating in something human-readable, not simply obtuse.

The posts defining the coming week’s focus will be tagged weeklies¹.

1. Yes, until I put in a good interface to the tags, you’ll need to type out http://aresnick.mit.edu/blog/tags/weeklies. [↩]

From Cory Doctorow’s talk at GoogleNYC, talking about his book, Little Brother:

“[…] who discover, after a terrorist attack on the Bay Area, that destroys the Bay Bridge, that in fact that as bad and terrifying a terrorist attack is, it at least has an ending. Whereas the police response to a terrorist attack has no graceful ending, it continues unbounded, and has a natural inertia that causes it to grow and grow and grow. In the name of security, all things are possible.

to write regularly.

In response to a question “on subject” but “off-topic” (that is, it wasn’t directly related to the problem set being discussed):

G No guys, let’s not go there. This is one of the only classes I’m getting an ‘A’ in, I’m not going to fuck it up.

Sorry for the delay.

Grades take on undue precedence:

G: You told me a few specific things [I could improve about my paper], but like, I wasn’t sure if like, if those things would make the difference between a ‘B’ and an ‘A’.