A Blog Not Limited

I can't believe it is July already. Which means I've been writing my book for three months now. That's even more astounding to me than how quickly those past three months have flown by.

July 1 also means that I have under two months to finish said book. While I would've figured that would have me even more stressed than I've been, I'm actually just relieved. It is almost over. I can do anything for seven weeks.

You may be sensing that my book writing experience hasn't been all rainbows and unicorns. And you'd be correct. Since my last update on the book process, it has been a bit of a roller coaster. But before I delve into those highs and lows, I do want to continue with this series and fill you in on more of the process (and help my ever-suffering memory).

Several weeks ago, I gave a bunch of presentations and I'm finally catching up with recaps on this here blog. Better late than never, no?

One of the presentations was to a a group of UNM's inservice and preservice teachers, who were taking a Multimedia Literacy for Educators course.

My talk was a personal account of my experiences as a web professional, including some of the challenges I've noticed in my field. But before I go into the recap details, how about some background?

With my busy writing schedule Useful Tweets has gone from a weekly series to bi-monthly to whenever I can fucking find the time. Not to mention, I've noticed I've been much less noisyprolific on Twitter these days.

But I'm keeping this series going, in hopes things get back to normal after my final manuscript is submitted in late August. So, here are links from the past three weeks' tweets that referenced web design/development resources, interesting products, things that made me laugh and other stuff I (loosely) deem "useful."

May 31 – June 21, 2009

• If you are using microformats in your Rails applications, check out this assert-microformats to help you test your microformats.
• As a tiny cog in a huge corporate monster, I particularly enjoy the irreverence of Scotty Got an Office Job, but I hadn't laughed so hard until he lost it.
• James Gunn's PG Porn series is one of the best things I've ever seen. My favorite episode, Nailing Your Wife is my favorite (um, maybe because of my dream man, Nathan Fillion). "For people who love everything about porn, except the sex."