Here we go again

I decide to revive this blog again, and for some silly reason I decided to sign up and commit to Project52. Project52 is kind of like SoFoBoMo and NaNoWriMo but instead of making a photo-book or writing a novel in one month you write a new article every week or in the words of the project itself:

Project52 is a personal challenge geared toward getting fresh content on your website. The goal is to write at least 1 new article per week for 1 year.

It seems easier to make a blog post every week then a whole book in four weeks so I think I might last all the 52 weeks.

I might also be horribly wrong.

Now, I already have a tumblr blog where I post something regularly but it’s rarely something I created myself and I kind of want to keep those two separated. We’ll see how it goes but at least it seems doable.

I’m also still not done with the blog system I made. I’m using the pages feature Github has and this blog is made using Jekyll and Liquid. The design is done, it’s just that I haven’t decided yet on what meta-data to embed into each post. At the moment I’m just adding the location of where I wrote the post, but I want to add something more, like what music I was listening to or what book I was reading during the time I wrote this and so on. At least everything is just stored as a plane text file and all the meta-data is just text at the beginning of the file, so that makes it easy to just add what ever I want to add when I write it.

So this blog is now active again and hopefully I can keep it active until at least January, 2011.

Bought a MacBook

On Monday I bought a MacBook, the 2.4GHz model. I’ve now had it for two days so here are my first impressions.

This is the second Apple notebook and my third laptop that I’ve had in my life, before I got this one I had the last version of the iBook G4 that was made, bought it in November 2005, 2 months before Apple announced the switch to Intel. I love the build quality of this machine. The illuminated keyboard is awesome. I’m still getting used to the button less trackpad but I think it won’t be long until I get used to it. The screen is great, the glossy state of it isn’t bugging me as much as the glare in my iMac did. It’s very bright and I’m never running it at full brightness. It’s harder to pull the USB cables out of their plugs then on the iBook.

I think this is it for now, I’ll probably post more about it later when I’ve had more time with it.

New Site

So I just moved gunnarhafdal.net off the Google App engine and over to GitHub. I have the abability to blog now so I guess I’ll do that sometime. It won’t be about one subject or always in english. It will all depends on in what mood I’m in at the time.

Anyway, more later.