Since deciding to continue with a personal blog a month or so ago, I have been wondering just how stupid I am. Of course there are many different ways somebody can be stupid, but I think I have a fair chance of nailing quite a few of them.
My once mighty notebook – a “Moleskine” no less – seems to have been reduced to a container of drivel. A real-world twitter account. Notes in passing. There was a time when it – or it’s ancestors – carried deep thoughts, observations, drawings, and various other brain dumpage.
Today marks the beginning of a real, proper blog. The beginning of an effort to regularly expound words of interest to the passing crowd from a platform built of the best virtual boxwood (in reality it’s built on Apache, PHP, MySQL and Wordpress, but that doesn’t have the same ring to it).
The next sentence is going to cause a number of people to slap their own foreheads with their hands – perhaps the entire readership – you know, all six of you. I’m just warning you in advance so you don’t try and blame me for personal injury.
I’m considering buying a domain name and webspace to [...]
As I have wrestled over the past year with the idea of stopping all this blogging nonsense, I have been turned around each time by an avalanche of comments and emails. It’s very easy to forget while thumping away at a keyboard in the dead of night that your thoughts and opinions will be broadcast [...]
I’ve been using posterous to throw thoughts into this blog for a while now. It’s a clever system that lets you publish to multiple places off the back of one email. I played with it some months ago, and walked away – then in a fit of laziness started using it again late last year. [...]
Nothing to see here
While talking with my cousin earlier, I realised a blog had not left a computer by my hand for several days. I'm not suggesting that some great wrong might occur somewhere in the universe in response to my inaction, but I don't really want to tempt fate either.
Blogging is of course serious [...]
While wrestling with the idea of giving up the blog altogether earlier, conversation around me turned to resolutions – or rather "New Year Resolutions". I thought for a few moments and could not think of much worth achieving within the next year. For a while it seemed sad that I could not think of anything, [...]
My blog is back at Wordpress – hosted by their good selves rather than me. I haven’t so much gone “full circle”, as started another lap. Hopefully this will be the last.
After thinking about it all afternoon, and much of the evening, a few things occurred to me;
Why am I paying for blog posting ?
Why [...]
Those who have read my various writing online will know I have had blogs at pretty much all of the more noteable hosts – Wordpress, Blogger, Tumblr, Posterous, etc – and of course I have hosted my own blog – most recently here at Cheese and Beans.
© Cheese and Beans. He has terrible tusks, and terrible claws, and terrible teeth in his terrible jaws.
