Author Archives: Raymond Yee

Sunday, March 14, 2004

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Sunday, March 14, 2004 on UC Berkeley campus

Sunday, March 14, 2004 on UC Berkeley campus

I was waiting for a concert to start. So I took some pictures in the meantime.





Readers, come back!

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Why can't I seem to get some momentum
going in my
weblogging? It has not been for the lack of saying, "Let me
try again. I promise, dear readers, this time will be different."
Although my weblogs have been very sleepy, I am succeeding in writing
in my wiki in an
almost daily fashion. Yeah! In quite a few ways, I find the wiki to
be a publishing environment more conducive to my way of working. I
like the way in which I can accumulate materials in a logical,
networked way much more easily than I could in a blog. Certainly, I
found that my wiki was missing a chronological framing, which I have
half-heartedly shoehorned into my wiki with the "Daily
Notes". (I say shoehorned because the navigational
structures are currently very weak.)


So with my wikis going so well, why not just drop my blogs?
Weblogs are perhaps an easier way to navigate the chronological
aspects of my online presence. My weblogs could provide another layer
of redaction. The wiki -- at least the way I use it -- is a messier
place. I did not want everyone to have to follow the muck if they did
not want to. Moreover, the separate personal and professional weblogs
was a big attempt to distinguish my personal and private worlds. The
wiki conflates the two. I have thought about building a personal and
private wiki -- and that might still happen -- but for the moment,
maintaining two wikis for the personal/private split is too much
work. (That is not to say, however, that I won't want to spin off ad
hoc wikis or ones for the Scholar's Box, a group project.)


Also I had the idea of "publishing" my pieces, freezing
them when I ported them to my blog. By default, I have left pages on
my wiki open for constant re-editing. Freezing things is sometimes
helpful. Maintaining a two-tier web presence meant writing stuff
first in my wikis and then transfer/repurpose materials for my
weblogs. That's where things did not work out as desired.


I think that something can be done about this problem. I think
that the big problem was that I did not leave enough time for the
editing and republishing process. I want to see now whether I can


A happy consequence of a better workflow would be solving the
continual phenomenon of de
novo creation of blog entries. I don't seem to have any problems
with writing on my wiki. But when I sat down to blog immediately, I
froze. There was too much pressure I was putting on myself to write
really good stuff without giving myself room to doodle and noodle.





A fight to try new things

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I find it a constant struggle to try new things. Tonight, I was content
to eat at the places I already knew. Hence, it was a great delight for
me to end up at Sabuy Sabuy, a Thai restaurant close to the
corner of College and Broadway
in Oakland. I found it hard to believe that it could be so nice
outside; the wooden fence certainly helped shield up from the busy
traffic of the corner. Now, watch how what is new becomes what is old
if I keep wanting to go back there!

Doing ok — just busy

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I've been struggling to do much public writing (though I've been hard at work writing reports). That's why it may seem that I have dropped off the face of the world -- at least from the perspective of someone who sees me primarily through my blog.

I used to promise that I would be back in the saddle in my blogging, that I would be regularly writing. That remains the goal. I just won't promise to do until I know I am able to deliver.