I’ve been having a frustrating moment recently as my Apple power cord has broke, leaving me unable to use my laptop regularly. I’ve ordered a power cord replacement that could come in soon, but it has been disruptive of my work life and blogging, so I won’t be able to blog reliably until my new power cord comes in. The rant continued a bit in this essay, but you’ve already got the gist of it.

I have made many claims about the falsity and absurdity of religion, and some people have responded by pointing out that my tone is offensive. My tone is actually not that offensive compared to other issues like politics, and even it was offensive, this would not give you a free excuse to ignore all of the things that I have said without engaging them.

Like 2010 and 2009 before it, this blog has seen another year come and go. Luckily it has been revived soon enough to document it. Here’s to 2011, another great year, again. It was pretty vibrant, with scientific achievement and many protesting. This post is my tribute to both the year and my website’s involvement in it. See you all in 2012!

Now that I’ve talked about what happened this year, what is in store blog-wise and topic-wise for this upcoming year? While plans are subject to change, the current plans are ambitious, and I aim to share them with you here.

I find feedback important for grounding myself, to make sure I know what I’m doing and not miss out on opportunities to learn how to do better. Thus I am soliciting feedback from my readers. Could you, dear reader, answer some or all of these questions in the comments, so I can know how I’m doing? It would be a wonderful favor.

I thought it would be cool to record all of my philosophical views (as much as I dislike the term) in one place to make it more clear what I believe and why, and so my shifts in belief can be tracked over time.

After winning NaNoWriMo, it’s time to reflect back on it. What were my goals and did I meet them? How do I think I did? What would I do differently if I were to hypothetically do this again next year?

There is no reason to fear being wrong when corrected, because it gives you a chance to change and adopt the more correct and improved belief. But there is definitely an urgent fear of being wrong in the sense that ignorance has cost the lives of millions of people throughout history. This is the True Fear of Being Wrong, and it is a massive problem to be overcome.

I want to do NaNoWriMo, except on my blog: I will be writing my 50,000 words in a series of blog essays for the month of November, attempting to write a blog post every day, something I wasn’t even able to do in my blogging experiment when I wasn’t a full time student.

In addition to reading a lot of different websites, I also like to read books. So I’ve decided to keep a list, starting from the beginning of July 2011, and documenting all the books that I’ve read, the book I’m currently reading, and all the books I plan to read.