I'm now 4 months into this experiment with posting some content and photos here every day. A third of the year has passed and I'm still going. When I started this, I did not expect that I would make it this far. It has been a healthy experience.

The idea of posting new photos every day has become a bit of an obsession. If it gets late in the afternoon and I have not yet done my walk around the neighborhood with my camera, I get anxious. This means that even on days when I am overloaded with work to do; even when I am fighting with a server or code problem that would normally keep me in front of the computer for days, I get my ass up, step away from the desk and go outside every day. Surprisingly, this has made it easier to focus on getting things done.

Even when I was so sick I could not get out of bed for more than 10 minutes at a time, I managed to get something posted which led to an interesting sense of having at least accomplished something with my day.

The idea of using my father's camera to show him my life has been really therapeutic as well. Yesterday, it was 6 months since he passed away. The photographic daily ritual has helped me make my peace with him and his death.

I think there are about 5 to 10 people actually reading my daily babble; on some days that might go as high as 100. Considering I'm not saying much, I find that to be a lot of eyes. I'll do my best to make the content more interesting in the next few months.

Props to Noah Scalin for instigating this experiment.

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