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So anyway, what will I write about here?

Tuesday, July 06, 2010 at 6:15 PM.

I'm thinking of reporting on an after-hours project to keep myself motivated.

Going public is a great way to keep promises to yourself.

It's like two things I can think of:

- A message board I started in 1997 for grad students having trouble finishing their theses and dissertations. I handed off management of the site years ago, but it's still going and students are still "pacting." That's what they call it when someone starts a thread saying something like "I'm going to write three pages a day for the next five days and organize my notes from such and such a survey. Anybody in?" Then others will say what they're going to do. It's quite inspiring.

- A wedding ceremony. You promise all kinds of things in front of most everybody you know.

How do you do unordered lists?

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