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My Project 365

To be able to visually re-live every day of a year; to better your photography day by day; to document your growth both physically, cosmetically and mentally - this is Project 365.

An article on photography newsletter/blog website Photojojo has inspired me to be a part of this project. And I suggest that all other budding photographers, bloggers, and even anyone who owns a digital camera should join me.

Seven good reasons to start your own Project 365:

1. You will have a visual diary to remind you of any day for a particular year;
2. By looking back on what you have chosen to photograph, you will learn to monitor yourself, prioritize, and figure out what is important to you as a person;
3. You will become a better photographer as you learn your camera and start to care about composition, lighting, technique and so on;
4. You will get into the habit of taking your camera everywhere with you (you never know what will crop up for you to photograph!);
5. You will develop an eye for details and your creativity will soar as you are forced to find inspiration in everyday objects;
6. You will learn to appreciate the details of the world around you (think of it as reaching a state of enlightenment!);
7. You will have a visual story to look back on in years to come (especially if you choose to annotate your pictures);

There are more, of course; you just have to think them up. Try taking a look at Taylor McKnight’s Project 365 from 2006 for inspiration.

My Project 365 will be hosted on orangeacid.net in the Projects section. I will put a daily update on the homepage too, if I can figure out how.

Opening up my GCSE revision notes

I decided to type up the bulk of my GCSE revision notes over the holidays as a form of revision. Then it hit me - if I am digitizing so much knowledge, why not make it freely available to everyone?

I have decided to release my notes under the Creative Commons Attribution License 2.5. These ‘creative’ licenses, sometimes referred to as ‘copyleft’, serve to remove some of the restraints copyright puts on your work. For example, with the license I have chosen, anyone is free to copy my work - for commercial gain or otherwise - as long as:

1. I am attributed;
2. The license of the work is stated wherever it is used;

However, I can waive any of the above terms.

Anyway, the revision notes, which will feature in the… umm… features section, will be based on the Joomla! CMS. This particular system allows logins and multiple authors, forums and so on, so if the site is popular then I may open the system up as a community site.

I am taking the following subjects at GCSE level:

• English Language and literature
• Mathematics (higher tier)
• Science (Salters double award)
• DiDA
• Business
• Geography (?) *
• German *

*I may or may not feature these.

Watch this space!

My own personal blog

Half an hour I installed a personal blog. It’s like orangeacid.net - it has a vague and undefined purpose, and by its very definition will be created, redesigned before the end of its natural lifespan, rebuilt from scratch every 6 months, and will in be generally even more incomplete than this site you are on now.

This blog is a little different, though - it’s mine.

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orangeacid.net is reborn

So… here is orangeacid.net… dead?

No, not really.  I have had to reset my blog, website, and databases, which meant losing everything that had happened on orangeacid.net in the last 6 months or so.

Does this upset me?  Well, yes at first, as it felt unfair that this should have to happen.  But looking over the posts I have lost (the posts still exist by the way, just not on the live website), I realised that the majority of them were just explanations for periods of absense, and promises of things to come.

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