<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606964592118947924</id><updated>2011-04-21T18:48:23.778-05:00</updated><category term='writing'/><title type='text'>so, you want to be a magician.</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sywtbam.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6606964592118947924/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sywtbam.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Ian Varley</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04549771851387122708</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>1</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606964592118947924.post-4705602443708984822</id><published>2009-04-14T20:05:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2009-04-14T20:24:19.977-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='writing'/><title type='text'>Making good things is hard,</title><content type='html'>but we can do no better work.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Writing&lt;/span&gt; original words takes time and clarity, and the enterprise mostly fails.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Music&lt;/span&gt; that deserves to be heard takes practice and heart, and beauty is fleeting and subjective.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Hacking&lt;/span&gt; can inspire learning, but it takes insatiable curiosity and limitless energy; few have eyes to see it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I’m a writer, and a musician, and a hacker; I care about words, I have music, and I love hacking.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So this new entity is my challenge to myself: &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;make something&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6606964592118947924-4705602443708984822?l=sywtbam.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sywtbam.blogspot.com/feeds/4705602443708984822/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sywtbam.blogspot.com/2009/04/making-good-things-is-hard.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6606964592118947924/posts/default/4705602443708984822'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6606964592118947924/posts/default/4705602443708984822'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sywtbam.blogspot.com/2009/04/making-good-things-is-hard.html' title='Making good things is hard,'/><author><name>Ian Varley</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04549771851387122708</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
