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I'm going to cut back and only post one article a week on my blog. The article below will be posted Wednesday (Jan 27) on my blog.

One Post a Week

Do you remember when Austin Powers “lost his mojo”? I feel that way. I’m not sure what else to say about Magic and programming. I’ve written more than 90,000 words and have spent countless hours programming.

One of the reasons that I’ve lost my mojo is because recently I haven’t been programming very much. Yes, I’ve talked a lot about Forge version 2 and all that jazz but actually doing it is a different story. Eventually I’ll probably get an itch to work on Forge again and hopefully version 2 will be done someday but not anytime soon. (I’m not sure even a million dollars would inspire me but again it wouldn’t hurt either, ha.)

For the last 6 months or so Forge has been updated by numerous brave volunteers that have collaborated through the forums. I can’t thank those guys enough for volunteering their time and knowledge. I try to always give credit where credit is due and DennisBergkamp, Rob Cashwalker, Chris H. and others have done a great job.

And finally, I consider Forge to be a huge success. It has more than 2,600 cards and a decent AI. If I want to play Magic at 2am in the morning, I can. Forge also has an insane variety of cards that you would never be able to afford in real life.

I feel like I’m saying good-bye but I’m not. I’m just going to spend a little less time focusing (writing and programming) on Magic for awhile.

So for now I’m going to limit myself to only one post on Monday. :+)

p.s.
If you type in “Magic computer programming” into Google, my blog is the first webpage returned, yeah.

No worries, you'll get your mojo back

Indeed, it will come back. I'm taking a hiatus right now from my usual work, I've been playing video games and reading. The subconscious mind tends to work in cycles, at least when you're inherently lazy like me.

Huggybaby wrote:Indeed, it will come back. I'm taking a hiatus right now from my usual work, I've been playing video games and reading. The subconscious mind tends to work in cycles, at least when you're inherently lazy like me.

Yeah I like to program only when I'm "in the zone". I'll get my mojo back. It is great to be able to take a vacation from Forge while other people work on it. (Man, I feel lazy sometimes but I guess we all do occasionally.)

TheAbe wrote::(

Yeah, one regular reader, . Your article on the DCI was good.

p.s.
On a side note, my blog gets anywhere from 250 to 350 hits a day. (Which will probably go down since I'm writing less but that is ok.)

I meant to say also, I missed reading your blog for a week or so and when I came back there had been an explosion of new articles, so you've really been on a roll recently. No wonder you're burned out!