A little something every day

From Carls wiki

I have a lot to write. I get ideas and I tend to... not do them. So here's what I'm going to do: adopt a policy of writing at least one little article on the wiki per day. In a year, that's 365 articles. I'll have 1000 articles in three years. Yeah.

Sometimes I won't have time to write an article. But I might have an idea for an addition to an existing one. Then that is ok — I'll still be making an edit.

Merely fixing a typo is also ok, but only when I really don't have the time. Otherwise it's just laziness.

The policy does not take precedence over vacations or important time off-line. Overall, it's a reasonable policy, made for me and not the other way around.

Will I always have something to write about? Something new every day? You bet. Today I had four new ideas, and that was just on the bike ride home from town. So finding content is not the problem, finding tuits is... as usual.

Here's me, making policies to spend my tuits wisely. We'll see how it goes. — Carl 22:40, 27 Aug 2006 (CEST)

Edits due to this policy

2007-02-27 — Ingen maskin (In Swedish)

Just felt like writing a short story today

2007-02-20 — Femton timmar kinesiska i veckan (In Swedish)

A stronger studying policy, since the last one was too easy to live up to

2007-02-18 — Think

Started on this, but got derailed. Maybe some other day

2007-02-12 — Prepositionsverb med betoning (In Swedish)

What can I say? Swedish is weird

2007-02-03 — Romanza project

Translating Bocelli's Romanza into Esperanto. Also a long-time wish of mine.

2007-01-28 — Fem timmar kinesiska i veckan (In Swedish)

A policy to improve my study pace in Chinese. It has been especially efficient, perhaps because it coincided with the forming of a regular study group. Replaced with a stronger policy after three weeks

2007-01-27 — Self-describing number

I don't know why I find this so exciting. I got a Perl 6 program doing the numbers for me, but didn't get around to putting it online along with the rest

2007-01-21 — Hillary Clinton

From a thought that occurred to me when reading the morning paper. I really know nothing about politics

2007-01-17 — Anglicismer (In Swedish)

A summary of an old Gmail thread

2007-01-14 — Kinesiska A:Oförenklade tecken (In Swedish)

A listing of the non-simplified characters used in Colloquial Chinese

2007-01-08 — Två timmar latin om dagen (In Swedish)

An effort to increase speed before the Latin exam

2007-01-08 — Dans (In Swedish)

In an effort to reduce the number of orphans on the page, I added this. It's probably a good addition for other reasons, too; I'd like to write more about dancing

2006-12-16 — Measure word

I'm growing to like them, so I made a page about them

2006-12-15 — Ett paradigm om dagen (In Swedish)

A project to make me study Latin in time for the exam

2006-12-14 — Chinese syllable project

An idea I've had at some time now

2006-12-06 — Characters that look like telephone poles

This page soon became very appreciated. They really do look like telephone poles

2006-11-23 — Schwa

A page about a wonderful vowel sound

2006-11-13 — Ordföljd i svenska

A long page about a difficult subject. I'm afraid that my effort does not do the subject proper justict, though

2006-11-10 — Vad Anshaytar sade om framtiden

A short story that keeps getting longer. I don't really know how it will end

2006-11-08 — Number systems in different languages, Broken

Spurred by some mails on the topic, created the beginnings of a listing of how ways of counting are less-than-completely-regular in most natural languages

2006-11-08 — Verb systems in Romance languages

Had an idea about comparing Latin verbs with those of other Romance languages

2006-11-07 — Barndomens TV-program (In Swedish)

Added some more stuff

2006-11-06 — Javamentorskap 2006:1 (In Swedish)

Created a page for the first meeting, and moved around a lot of other stuff

2006-11-05 — Biltjuven (In Swedish)

Wrote a short story out of the blue — tuit power

2006-11-04 — Barndomens TV-program (In Swedish)

Spurred by some mails on the topic, made a little list of children's shows I've seen when I was young

2006-11-02 — Left-leg biking

I'd had this idea for a while now, so I put it up

2006-10-23 — Emergent culture

Fleshed out some details about Windows and Linux

2006-10-17 — Kinesiska A:Ordlista (In Swedish)

On request, put up a list of words from our text books

2006-10-13 — Brevlåda

Wikified an old song of mine

2006-10-10 — Kinesiska A:Realia (In Swedish)

Wikified some notes I'd sent to Bjarni

2006-10-10 — Mid-Autumn Festival 2006

Decided to try to translate a Chinese paragraph written about me. Didn't get around to it because finding the characters proved time-consuming

2006-10-09 — Change is the new black

Wrote a page about how our world is changing rapidly around us nowadays

2006-10-07 — Deponens (In Swedish)

Wrote some about a special type of verbs

2006-09-15 — Enlarge_your_nose

Added this one from an old mail to Johan. Jonathan didn't much like it

2006-09-13 — Fågelinfluensan (In Swedish)

Wikified an email reply I wrote to my father about the avian flu and conspiracy theories. Interesting exercise.

2006-09-11 — Emergent culture

An thought condensed into a page. This is why this policy rocks.

2006-09-08 — Correlative table

Threw together tables for English, Esperanto, Ido and Latin. A day later, I sent a link to AUXLANG for general review, generating suggestions for links and for other constructed languages: so far Novial and Sasxsek. Also got my first content spammer on the page because AUXLANG is archived on the web. Added Swedish a few days later.

2006-09-07 — Bioinformatics

Complemented the IBG explanation a little with my own take on defining the subject.

2006-09-06 — Gonnect on the Voyage 200

A short tour through the horrors of calculator programming and optimizing for performance.

2006-09-05 — Curryfärssås (In Swedish)

A recipe which I'm experimenting with right now. Tried it the same evening. Delicious.

2006-09-04 — Ord utan vokal (In Swedish)

Got the idea to write this after discussing vowel-less words in Swedish.

2006-09-03 — Girly bike

After some stalling that day, I threw together a short paragraph on the girly bike. Hope to put in a photo later.

2006-09-02 — Please_don't_bother_me_with_these_paradoxes

Collected together a few "paradoxes" that I think are stupid.

2006-09-01 — Japanese_soda

I put up some photos of a can of soda that I took a few months earlier.

2006-08-31 — Choosing between a Mac and a Linux PC

Spurred by the recent discussion on Gmail, I took the time to start on this article.

2006-08-30 — A word to all Swedish drivers

I've wanted to write this blog-like opinion piece for some time now. I didn't know how serious I was when writing it, and I hoped that the reader wouldn't, either. A consequence of writing it was that I actually had less of an issue crossing the street in front of cars.

2006-08-29 — Esperanto (In Swedish)

Finally wrote a short introduction to the language and my thoughts about it.

2006-08-28 — bx

Created the page in the morning about an idea for a program I would like to have. In the afternoon I already had a running prototype.