Colin Walker

Following on from yesterday, the actual issue was that I wasn't setting CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER => true for the curl request in the bookmark function and the redirect appeared to be failing without it. It's often not needed but appeared to be required in this case.

Amit writes about journalling or, rather, about not journalling:

"Journaling isn't part of my routine anymore. So, I have slowly stopped doing it."

It used to be part of his morning routine but that changed and journalling went with it.

It's been a long time since I have written morning pages; it's been a long time since I've written anything by hand with any degree of regularity but my digital journal – now that's another matter.

Journalling, for me, isn't part of any particular routine. I don't just do it in the morning or before bed. I add to my journal whenever the mood takes me: first thing in the morning, before bed, seven minutes past three on a Tuesday afternoon, whenever. I think that is key to my doing it – I don't have a routine to break and there is no pressure to do it at any set time.

It doesn't have to be earth-shattering stuff or complex ideas, just a few quick words, anything that comes to mind I might want to record. Things I've done or want to do, notes to self, thoughts and feelings, what happened on any given day, and a mini gratitude log.

The journal and blog are aide-mémoires, reminders of what has happened when the old grey matter lets me down. They are part of the conversation between past, present and future me and I wouldn't be without them.