Derek Peden

Do More.

“Get Busy Living or Get Busy Dying”

I’m a master of procrastination, and seeking perfection. Actively preferring inaction over an ill-judged hasty reaction.

So I’ll defer a little hear and there. Move things to later this afternoon. Later tomorrow. Later next week.

Now while I can’t do literally everything right now, today, I can at least strive to do what I Can Do rather than what deliberate over what I Can’t Do or Should Do now. Easier said than done when I have so much on my plate. But there is so much I put off till a rainy day, when it’s raining.

So this is my plan for Q2-18.

Let’s see how this goes. Maybe somethings can become new habits.

That moment when you realise your phone is full of photos of a small, white¹ dog.

What’s the best domain?

Surname? First Name?

Both First Name & Surname?

Or something else you like?

So I can add basic plumbing to my CV. Very basic, but enough for tonight thankfully.

My Micro-Monday recommendation is for @teisam

After a few days of amazing discussion with fellow micro-bloggers it’s difficult to make a Micro Monday suggestion. But thanks to @teisam for diagnosing the solution to my problems with Wordpress. Others will be on future Mondays.

Snowing again. Happy Easter.

Dear Derek

This is from your past self. You know, the one feeling a bit under the weather after a day out with a bottle of wine and some cocktails.

I’m sorry to break it to you, but you’re not actually James Bond or Tony Stark or anyone else who can knock em back and still look cool. No you just look like everybody else.

You are not James or Tony. You really can’t take that much or look fresh the following day. Quite the opposite.

So next time please remember this day before you order yet another round of drinks. Tsk tsk.

Derek

Yesterday was a good day however I’m paying for it today…

Anything said today should be considered inadmissible in Court.

Happy. Very Happy

There is something really special about a cocktail bar with a guy on the piano (even on a Sunday afternoon)

All my recent notifications are from Micro.blog. What an amazing community. Thank you @manton

I have 3 blogs I want to write:

1. My industry/career blog which I write and host at Wordpress.com
2. A microblog, hosted by Micro.blog
3. A new blog. An extended blog of long form writing and… who knows. This post could almost be published there - it’s long enough!

But the platform for the 3. still eludes me. It’s currently on Tumblr ¹but that’s not great.

I want to be able to write and edit in Markdown, but I’m not prepared to put up the £240 a year (over $250 USD) for the Business plan needed to enable Markdown plug-ins on Wordpress.com.

Wordpress.org might be an option but I’m still looking at domain and hosting fees for what is currently an experiment.

Tumblr handles Markdown and as I said is my current choice. But editing longer form text on iOS is woeful and well let’s face it, it’s Tumblr so it’s in a sea of other bad, lurid and childish content.

So at this point I’m strongly considering using the excellent MarsEdit to migrate my Tumblr content to a new Wordpress.com site and work with the lack of live Markdown support.

But of course, I’m open to other suggestions…

Since the re-awakening of my tumblr blog, I been enjoying the discussion on this evening on running a blog. But honestly, I’m out of my depth.

Beyond Micro.blog, what’s the best low cost “service” for a larger blogs? (For mere mortal muggles). I’ve tried wordpress and tumblr, but frustrated with both.

Millennial’s having Macdonald. I’ll stick with a salad.

Just waisted 20mins on HTML image formatting. It may actually be faster for me to write the 1000 words in future.

Manual edit of HTML on Ground Coffee

Microsoft Excel for macOS:

Application Not Responding

The most frequently seen UI element.

Tumblr, sleeping since 2014

Opted to start a Tumblr blog for the longer content, not in keeping with a micro blog.

Only when opening 1password I found the credentials for the Tumblr blog I created in 2014.

Total number of posts: 0

Clearly “Ground Coffee” been an worthwhile exercise back in the day.

When does a micro blog post become a all grown up blog post?

Call to my wife when driving home:

Me: “That’s me on the way to the vets for the dog’s medicines”

Wife: “Oh thanks. Can you get a chicken?”

Me: “Eh…” (mind racing to the Monty Python Dead Parrot sketch) “not from the vets, no…”