Jason Bock
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The Backblog Project
Now that I have my web site tools done…what’s next? Oh, there’s lots of little projects for me to do. There’s the Twin Cities Code Camp this Saturday, then I have an internal WCF talk to given at Magenic, then a code security talk in a couple of weeks, plus there’s a bunch of stuff I want to work on, both on my web site and my side code projects. But … I wanted to put something together than I’ve been mulling over for the past year or so, and I think it’s time to kick it off:
The picture shows two journals plus a set of tapes (remember those?) that I used to journal in college. The orange journal only has a couple of entries (from 8.24.1991 to 10.1.1995), the green one has entries from 10.23.1997 to 10.7.1999 [1]. The load of journal entries are in the tapes (ranging from 5.24.1993 to 9.9.1995). Each tape is 90 minutes in length so you can imaging that I did a lot of rambling in college (what else was I supposed to do during that time? Oh, yeah, write my master’s thesis!).
This project will require a lot of typing. The journals won’t be too hard, but I’ll have to listen from the tapes and enter what I hear (and no, I’m not doing this though speech recognition - I’m not leaving that up to chance!). So you can guess that this isn’t going to get done anytime soon. But I want to preserve this stuff in digital form.
I also reserve the right to edit the content as I see fit. I know, that doesn’t seem right in a way, does it? But there’s probably some stuff on the tapes that deal with my former fiance in college (I really have no clue what I said at this point) and I may not want to publish that. That’s OK in my book; this project is more for me to “back-blog” my life, and I’ll be the judge about what gets through on my blog.
[1] When I was younger, I actually kept a diary/journal of sorts, but I threw that all away for reasons I can’t remember right now. That would’ve been fun to find that stuff and post it. It would’ve probably been very embarrasing as well!
Published: 04.22.2007 01:45:30 PM CST