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Web-based education has charged me with motivation that I rarely felt in my traditional school setting when I was growing up. Over the past few months, I've explored a few web-based opportunities, among them p2pu.org, iTunes U, Udacity, Coursera, and a learning management system internal to my organization. As  these venues have gotten my synapses crackling, I thought my much-neglected blog should reflect more than static.

I've returned to p2pu to participate in a series of challenges in the Mozilla School of Webcraft. Challenges satisfy my typically twitchy attention span: they are short and task-oriented, and generally are composed of one or more obnoxious-but-necessary steps to accomplishing a larger goal. This challenge required me to choose an enhanced text editor and write about why I chose it.

I've been using notepad++ for a while-- it has nice (though ubiquitous) features like syntax highlighting, auto-completion, and support for a number of languages. I've primarily used it for html, opting for full IDEs like eclipse when I've dabbled in java. For as visual of a person as I am, the highlighting is invaluable, but it can be found in many other editors out there, so google around if notepad++ doesn't fit your needs.

Sadly, there is no syntax highlighting for rusty blog posts to tell me when or how to close this entry. I'll try to keep with the spirit of my post's title and incrementally increase the number of posts-- til then....