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I’ve just got the theme and a few posts up for my new blog, Haiku.

What does “subscribe” mean?
How to increase your blog subscription rate by 254% suggests you shouldn’t use the word “subscribe” to entice people towards your RSS feed.
Bloggers are used to the word and know what it means, especially when accompanied by an orange icon with two curves and a dot. How many other people understand it? [...]

I totally love the Font Game that’s hosted on I Love Typography! It’s written by Kari. I’d love to have an iPhone and play it on there.

Wooshka!
Lookee what came in the mail yesterday…

Me doing some magnetic poetry in my new Wooshka shirt, and being silly with the merch.
My new Wooshka t-shirt. Last week Wooshka had a $1 sale. So this t-shirt cost me $1+$5p&h. I’m pretty impressed with the quality, material feels nice and it’s a pretty good fit; it’s a [...]

Goals
I only realised last night that just telling myself to do my essay isn’t working. I need to make smaller, achievable goals to actually be productive and be able to measure my success. Previous goal: “Write Proteorhodopsin essay.” Todays goal: “Read at least 3 papers and write at least 2 pages of essay.”
That might sound [...]