You have reached my original blog. On August 23, 2008, "Capturing my Attention" was retired. Now I'm blogging over here at the more simply-titled blog. Other than a possible glitch in smoothly navigating from page to page during the week of this transition, hopefully you won't really notice any other changes. Anything written between January of 2005 and the "retirement" of this blog is still here, active, and very much a part of my body of rambling posts about the things that caught my attention on any given day. Wherever you readit, enjoy!
Melody | Saturday, 16 August, 2008 at 10:17 AM Just finished reading a fun article by Margaret Mason on Twitter etiquette. She's the same person who wrote No One Cares What You Had for Lunch: 100 Ideas for Your Blog, that I subsequently mentioned in my blog back here at It's true: they probably don't care.
A little snippet for you to set the tone:
Melody | Thursday, 14 August, 2008 at 11:16 AM The immediacy of colleague feedback in collaborative projects quickly goes missing when you go to work for yourself. Seeing the flash of insight in a coworker's eyes and hearing, "That's a great idea. Let's do that!!!" is something I miss a lot. It's a little thing but this kind of give-and-take is important.
Because of my recently-increased work flow solitude, I probably placed more weight on some recent email responses to
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Forgot to buy some decaf yesterday. Oops. My self-mandated project, now that I'm returning to the land of Consistently Medicated ADD Types, is to decrease my caffeine intake. By rather a lot. There will certainly be no cold turkey for me. I need to be functional and this girl has gotten herself a considerable dependency on the stuff. Never mind. Today I only get 2 cups of coffee. (As opposed to the notably-higher