What a funny thing it is, that a blog can feel neglected.
Or rather, that the blogger feels neglectful, I should say, since of course a blog can’t feel anything, so far as we know. (Ghost in the machine? An A.I. with an online journal? … What a different book William Gibson’s Neuromancer would have been [...]
Our Blogging, which art in WordPress,
Hallowed be its name;
Our writing done, the comments come,
And our spam queues please stay barren.
Then give us, this day, our daily blogroll,
And forgive us our absences,
As we forgive those who forget
To read us.
And lead us not into stagnation,
But deliver us from babble.
For ours is the wisdom, and the candor,
And the [...]
How appropriate. I spend days (weeks, months…) thinking off and on about my badly neglected blog, about how to best bring it back to life, about how to craft the “perfect” re-starter post to freshen things up and get things going again… and then as I’m here looking at my own past advice to “just [...]
I have a New Year’s resolution.
As January rolls forward and 2008 steadily increases its hold on our calendars, I have – like so many others – decided to take the beginning of yet another revolution around the Sun as an opportunity to make a (hopefully) lasting change in my life. This will be the year, [...]
Well, here it is. I set up my blog a little over 3 hours ago, and here I am at 2:30 in the morning writing my “first post” (with thanks to the often rather eccentric insanity of Slashdot for inspiring the term and its connotations).
So now, after spending much time fiddling with WordPress configuration options, [...]