The Thesis Log
Monkeyblah has a new section, which may not be all that interesting to most of you. As some of you know, I am currently writing my Master's thesis in computer science at Chalmers University of Technology, on the topic of Computer-generated video game narratives.
Well, as it turns out, my discipline isn't the greatest in the world, a woe well-known to anyone who's been a student for any length of time. Work is simply not getting done at the pace I need it to. Taking a cue from my good friend Jolle, I've decided to keep a log of my daily activities on the thesis, and that's what the new section is for. In reality, it's just a listing of posts bearing the thesis-log tag, but it's good enough. Posts bearing this tag are not shown on the front page or in date listings; you have to look for the tag specifically to see any such entries.
The purpose of this log is twofold; for one, to document my work, but more importantly to keep me motivated. Public visibility and accountability makes for a powerful motivator. For the rest of you, hey, maybe it'll interest some of you.
Edit: Here's the first entry, for today.
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Will this stuff end up in the RSS feed? As I visit your blog rarely, but always keep up with it via Google Reader, I'd appreciate it if this stuff was in the RSS. Since I'm very much interested in the topic.
Yes, it will. I'm considering making a separate RSS feed for it, though... but for now, the RSS feed contains all entries.
http://www.monkeyblah.com/rss_blog.xml?categories=thesis-log maybe? :) (Or is the feed static?)
The file is static, but it would be trivially simple to generate a rss_thesis.xml along with the other one.