Two Slashes

Out of all of the months of the year, February is the shortest.  This fact alone makes it the ideal month for someone like myself attempt what I’m about to embark on.

After Justin‘s successful first attempt at posting every day for a solid month, he decided that the time was right to try it again, and in what will probably be a fantastic failure, I’ve decided that I’m going to try the same thing.  I have a growing Evernote notebook of post ideas, so this seems like a great way to shrink it down and put some content out at the same time.

In an attempt to keep in with the theme behind everything else here, though, I’m calling this little endeavor the “Comment Block.”  (If you don’t get it, feel free to leave a comment asking for an explanation.  Rest assured that it’s a developer joke, though.)

To make sure that there’s no question about what’s going on, I’m going to lay down (and abide by) the following ground rules:

1. Post queuing is allowed, but not backdating.  This means that while I can write a few posts ahead of time to cover any busy time in my schedule, I cannot change the date on a post to suggest that I was on time with it.  (This also means that I won’t be following in the footsteps of a few bloggers I know who have attempted to pull similar stunts.  If you’re reading this, you know who you are.)
2. Anything I want to discuss or rant about is fair game.  (Not that this rule needed to be said.)
3. The minimum word count for a post is 400 words.  (While I try to follow this rule in my normal posts, with only a few special exceptions, most of them tend to be at least double this length.)  This rule is intended to prevent me from sneaking out of a day’s post by grabbing a random link from StumbleUpon or Digg and trying to come up with something to discuss out of it.

Let the ranting begin.  I’ll see you tomorrow.  I hope.