I have a bad habit of reading about all sorts of things and then never doing anything to put into practice what I learn. With the advent of RSS, blogs, search, and the Web in general, the amount of information that I take in has increased exponentially. And while I do feel that I have much more ability than I did, say 5 years ago, I don’t feel that my abilities have increased at anywhere near the same exponential rate that my knowledge has, which has been frustrating me of late.
In the words of an ancient

ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

So one of my new new-year’s resolutions is to start doing exercises in everything, or at least as much as possible, that I read and learn about. The idea is that whenever I come across some idea or principle or technology that I want to learn, I am going to create some sort of exercise to put that idea into practice. Some sort of project or or habit that will force me to apply all this information that I am always taking in. something that forces me to focus on doing.

This blog is the first example of the year of this. I have been sort of learning Web design/programming over the past year, but it has just all been in the abstract. I haven’t, till now, really done anything to actually gain the ability to do Web design/programming, though I have read tons to learn all *about* it. So, I decided that a good, Wordpress driven, blog was as good a place as any to start. It is my first exercise in increasing my ability to do Web design rather than just keep learning about Web design.Hopefully this will spread into other areas, so that my increase in abilities starts to make the same exponential increases that my knowledge is.

Three cheers for Exercise!

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