{"id":1092,"date":"2013-03-21T21:54:04","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T21:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/?p=1092"},"modified":"2013-03-30T13:31:56","modified_gmt":"2013-03-30T13:31:56","slug":"its-been-a-long-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/21\/1092\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s been a long time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been an incredibly long time since my last post on this blog. This post is partially a reminder to myself, that I have no intention of ever closing this blog. In fact, I often compost new posts in my head when not online, and never get around to posting about them. I need to fix that.<\/p>\n<p>So, in no particular order, here is some random stuff I&#8217;ve been involved with or are on my mind right now.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 16px;\">I still run <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/wastenothing.ca\/\">Waste Nothing<\/a><\/strong>, a project I introduced in my previous post. While it is the same basic site as it was when I first announced it, it has been improved in almost every way since then. There&#8217;s lots more still to go. Waste Nothing has it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/wastenothing.ca\/blog\">own blog<\/a>, but I have largely only been announcing major updates on there, and the same goes for the <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/wastenothing\">Waste Nothing twitter account<\/a>.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Largely as a result of Waste Nothing, there are lots of little <strong>web development tidbits<\/strong> or techniques I&#8217;ve done that I think are worth sharing with others, and I&#8217;ve intended for a long time to write them up here for everyone&#8217;s benefit. I&#8217;m still planning on that.<\/li>\n<li>I had put my <strong>Quizify<\/strong> project on hold to focus on Waste Nothing, and that is still the case. Someone wanted to use quizify.com, and as I wasn&#8217;t really using it much, I let it go. So if and when I come up with an online quiz\/study tool in the future, it won&#8217;t be at that address. I&#8217;ve returned to Quizify&#8217;s old url,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/faganm.com\/quizify\/\">faganm.com\/quizify\/<\/a>, and that page will have further information if there every is any.<\/li>\n<li>Waste Nothing provides information about all sorts of waste reduction options; largely local services that are different everywhere. I&#8217;ve now begun one such local service, the <a href=\"http:\/\/repairathon.com\/\">Toronto Clothing <strong>Repairathon<\/strong><\/a>, which is in the early stages but will probably have its first event in April.<\/li>\n<li>I was initially pretty upset about the closing of <strong>Google Reader<\/strong>. After all, I&#8217;m am extremely dependent on it, and have been for years. I switched to it after years of using Bloglines, when that services was starting to fail too often to use. But I&#8217;m starting to think that it&#8217;s a good thing&#8230; many similar services are starting to spring up and existing competitors are improving their operations. I refuse to believe this is the death of RSS, and perhaps it&#8217;ll lead to greater innovation that Google Reader was effectively stifling.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Twitter<\/strong>&#8230; so many years on, and I still haven&#8217;t figured it out. I have a couple of accounts (personal, Fagan Finder, Waste Nothing, Repairathon), but writing short things frequently has never been my style. I&#8217;m much better at spending a long time to do something carefully researched and thought out. Despite this, I&#8217;m trying to force myself to adopt the Twitter-style cultural norms for my newest project at the <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/repairathon\">Repairathon twitter account<\/a>. It feels weird. On my Waste Nothing Twitter account, I follow tons of other accounts related to reducing waste in some way (over 1,300)&#8230; which sounds cool, but it makes Twitter completely useless for actually reading. The signal-to-noise ratio on the site just does not work. There&#8217;s a feature they have (Discover &gt; Tweets) that works a bit better, but I know there&#8217;s got to be something much better than that still.<\/li>\n<li>I thought the <strong>genetic testing<\/strong> offered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.23andme.com\/\">23andMe<\/a> was really cool when it first came out, but it was far too expensive for me to even consider it. Not anymore, and I finally did the test a few months ago. My ancestry results were very much what I expected, but it is still very neat to see that all, as well as the health information. Oh, and I&#8217;m 2.5% neanderthal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been an incredibly long time since my last post on this blog. 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