# After all the tweaking and testing yesterday the daily email didn't go out overnight. Testing this morning also failed so it wasn't an issue recreating the cron jobs. I may have to look at alternative solutions.
It's so frustrating that something I built and am quite proud of is hampered by something as arbitrary as rules on a spam filter - an outgoing one at that - that no one appears to have any control over. Because the antispam setup is outsourced the support guys are not even able to tell me what rules are being triggered, it obviously just doesn't like the mail format. Something just looks like spam and the system takes objection.
# My wife is about to embark on a Theology degree and one of the books to read in advance is How To Write a Theology Essay by Micheal P Jensen. I'm reading it as well so that we can discuss what it covers and came across this:
Thinking is actually hard work. Now it doesn't look like it is, because you do a lot of it sitting down, and you don't sweat much doing it. You don't get callouses anywhere, and you don't put your back out for the most part. But it is hard. Done properly, thinking is exhausting. That's why we watch TV – because it is like we are having someone else do our thinking for us.
Truth!
@colinwalker It’s because thinking is hard work that I long ago realized that I prefer to see myself as a writer, rather than a thinker, or “intellectual”. I often write as a substitute for thinking — and sometimes (I hope) as a backdoor into it.
@artkavanagh Ah, but you cannot write without thinking so I think you’ve left the back door wide open ;)
@artkavanagh Indeed, later in the book (I've just reached this) he says "to write well is to think well."
We often joke at work (as technical writers) that if you see us staring out the window, we're actually working hard. And it's true. Most of writing is thinking, and you can't write well unless you think well.
Yahoo! I see I can post comments to your site from WordPress.com Reader now. Have you installed Jetpack?
JetPack has always been installed. Couldn't you before? Maybe it's something to do with the move to the new host.