zOMG! Where did your blog go???When I moved to WordPress.com, one of my intentions was to reboot: to try can capture the stuff from the “old” blog that really worked, and do it all the time.
So far, my “sophomore effort” has sucked. There’s nothing good here. A lot of the time, I don’t even want to use this blog. At least it’s free…
Too much time is spent on “fuck the NorsefireRepublican party” that should be done in a Twitter-style bon mot, when my “srsly what’s the deal with IE’s DOM” gets Twittered when it should be expanded into a real post.
I also noticed that as time goes on, I become more and more concerned about content on the web that is … let’s go with questionable, and is associated with my name. At work, our customers are supremely concerned with search engines, and it’s only a matter of time until one of them gets bored enough to run my name through Google. I’m not sure I want them to see my current opinions. I keep coming back to, “If one of them is going to google me and end up here, I’d rather it be a popular article about a neat PHP trick” instead of “blah blah blah I hate so-and-so”. In a sense, I want my “online identity” to be more closely associated with my work; but doing that means, in part, making it PG13.
But mostly, I read this by Merlin Mann, and this paragraph (among others) resonated in a pretty big way:
What makes you feel less bored soon makes you into an addict. What makes you feel less vulnerable can easily turn you into a dick. And the things that are meant to make you feel more connected today often turn out to be insubstantial time sinks — empty, programmatic encouragements to groom and refine your personality while sitting alone at a screen.
Wow. Damn. Yeah. Read the whole thing: it kicks so much ass you cough shoelaces. And upon reflection, it really did occur to me that I should say “fuck it”, and reboot.
So that’s that. It’s all gone. Time to start anew.
