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Archive for 2013

An Endless March

Thirst forever consumes their parched lips
That pray silently for deliverance from this hell
Alone in chains linking thousands
Miles they cross every day with only a desolate destination

For them, for us all we call this life
An endless march towards nowhere
Walking, retreating into deathly days nearer the abyss
The shackled march on, aimless, endless

Breathing out that which sustains them
The fog engulfs their sight that they cannot see
But for the blinding darkness that encompass all
Around them the landscape turns to ashes
And their sore, downtrodden feet unto dust

Lift up your heads, my weary children
See all the footprints behind you in the dust
Relinquish the promise of the freedom of escape
Give up the future for the long march ahead

Eyes locked forward, fixed like the barrel of a gun
You must not look upwards into the blinding sun
For the you would be useless to the greater cause that lies ahead
Without feet, without sight, to them you’d be better off dead

My weary ones
When it feels like the journey will never end
You gotta hold your head high
And keep pushing on
Again

March forward to the beating of the sun
Feet blistered red by the roughshod road
Tortured by master less than nature
Whose harsh path you forever follow

Adding Comments

Today, I just added Disqus comments to segiddins.me. I thought long and hard about whether or not to put comments on my website. My blogging heros (Marco, Gruber, Moltz et al) don’t have comments, but other sites have great communities that are based around commenting. For the time being, I want to enable commenting and see how it goes.

Who's Here?

Today, I’m really happy to announce that my third iOS app is now available on the app store!

Who’s Here? was inspired by my Computer Science teacher, who jokingly suggested I should make an attendance-taking app, so I did!

Who’s Here? is the best app for attendance taking! Whether you’re chaperoning a school trip, teaching a class, or conducting a rehearsal, look no further than Who’s Here? to make taking attendance quick and painless.

You walk into class, the bell’s about to ring, students are already at their seats, and you have an awesome lesson planned for the day. Do you take the half hour to log onto the network to take attendance? Of course not! You just fire up Who’s Here?, go through the class roll, and off you go!

 

DrawnByMe 1.1.1 Released

DrawnByMe 1.1.1 just went live on the app store and it squashed several annoying bugs. See below for the complete update list.

  • Fixed error where image wouldn’t resize to fill screen
  • Fixed save error where photo would’t be included in a saved image
  • Added confirmation before reset