I move. I move even on the days when I don’t leave my desk, when my gaze is never averted from my computer’s monitor. I move because I do stuff. Being a mover is about not waiting for opportunities to present themselves plain as day, but seeking them out, creating my own luck. When I’m bored, I don’t sit back and pop on a movie. I say, today I’ll build myself a new blogging system on my personal website! Today, I’ll implement a new drawing feature in my iPhone app. Today, I’ll learn about integral calculus a year before the first test! Starting to see a pattern? A mover, as defined by the OED is “a person or thing in motion”. In this context, however, the motion need not be literal kinematic motion, but rather some sense of progress. I am proud to say that I always strive to move in the direction of progress, forward towards some goal. I try not to wait for people to catch up, or let myself wait until they start moving. If I were a sprinter, I’d like to be Usain Bolt, just running as fast as I could, not looking back over my shoulder, confident that my trajectory is right. Some nights, when my homework isn’t very scintillating, when I feel that my life is on the precipice of fading into stodginess, I get on a path and just go. Last week, going meant exploring an algorithm to pull out the most dominant colors in an image. Why did I do it? For extra credit in my Computer Science class? Sure, extra credit would have been nice, but my object was simply piquing my intellectual curiosity. I don’t like standing still, in the metaphorical sense. I pace when on phone calls because I like to keep things moving, and the forward progress is somehow soothing. I don’t like standing still-it’s boring. I know there are always new things for me to explore in the world, and once I’ve drunk in one locale, I yearn to find another to so absorb. I sometimes ramble a bit, in case you haven’t noticed, but that’s because I like to keep going, and sometimes the only way to do so successfully is just to let words out. I like to move, and I plan on staying in motion.

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

Go download DrawnByMe 1.1.2, a quick update to my favorite little drawing app.

Cutting to the chase, update notes:

• Added ‘Open In…’ support for images from other apps
• Made DrawnByMe fullscreen… finally

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.

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!