Well, that should be the motto of this blog! I’m trying to set a regular posting schedule but it’s just not working at the moment. I’m sure you all have seen my erratic postings, some days 6 somedays 1. I don’t think that this is a good thing over the long run.

I should try to pace myself more and that will benefit readers as well as me. Also, I don’t have any spare postings, just lots of stubs! In other words, there are no spare postings that would allow me to schedule, say tomorrow’s, postings. I always seem to be posting yesterday’s posts! Aha!

So here is my action plan. Find a quiet time to do postings in the morning, every day.

1. Write or finish two good postings for the blog.
2. Create two new stubs for possible topics.
3. Find two good postings to comment on.

I found that I am quite comfortable typing at about 8-9am when my other half isn’t awake yet.

Having read quite a few blog posts, esp. at John Chow et al., I am sometimes horrified by the carelessness blog posters show towards the English language! I am not an English major, nor am I particularly a fussy person. But still the mistakes that one reads on some websites, supposedly written by native speakers, makes the skin crawl.

Now, I have to say, my own blog contains numerous errors in spelling and grammar, too. I will try to weed them out as I go over older posts! I naturally strive for better than that in each post!
I was therefore delighted when I found “Common Errors in English”, a website that can help writers and bloggers, sort out the common mistakes that infect our writing. A good example was the clear explanation of ‘affect’ and ‘effect’ and how these two words, while similar in spelling and even closer in pronunciation at times, are quite different in usage and meaning. Yet it is a common error.

Hence, the value of this site. Effective, to the point, and NOT bombastic.