Blog Templates

Messing around with templates can take up a surprisingly awful amount of time.

Okay, so...

... in the meta-post prior to this one, I mused about blogging here more frequently, and it seems like that hasn't been the case. Actually, I have been writing quite a bit, but I have continued to do so offline, as well as on a new experimental tumblog on tumblr. The interface is a lot simpler than blogger, and the CSSs they use a lot more cutesy and fashion forward I would say. The whole situation is still in flux as I equivocate about where to post things, how best they get linked together, and what sort of content I want to be putting out there. As I begin to grow more cynical about the economic situation, and the state of world affairs, I'm started to think to myself, "who give a fuck?" We're neither guaranteed nor promised anything in this world, so might as well be true to yourself, sort out what you love to do, and just put it out there. All that is very exciting and scary at the same moment.

Posting about posting

I've been following a few thought lines recently on the internet which touch upon how social networking sites like Facebook & Twitter have transformed the internet, specifically with respect to personal blogs.  If you're provided with a single, centralized place to interact with the people you know, provide updates to your life in various formats, then why go through the trouble to set up an independent place on the web with all the hassle of customizing, and the labor of updating it on a regular basis?  

In my own experience, since I've joined Facebook, I've made very little effort to post anything on this blog, which at one time I used to document my own personal thoughts and significant events, not so much  for anyone else, but primarily for my own amusement.  

Now, in addition to regularly signing in to Facebook, I've also been experimenting with using several different journaling, or quick thought-capture apps, so most of what I have been recording has been piling up on my computer, instead of  appearing in this space.  As such, what has always been for me an introspective process, has become so once again.  But after considering the discussion mentioned above, I realized that what I appreciate most about personal blogs is the intermittent dialogue generated by posting.  

Therefore, in the very near future, I think I may, slowly, and not without some resistance produced by in fact living life, and yet naturally under some consternation arising from potentially missing self-imposed targets, endeavor to begin again, quietly, deliberately, to post.

MobileMe, blah!

Okay, so in April I finally succumbed to my desire to purchase a new computer, and settled on a Macbook.  It's my first Apple computer, and I suppose I am not part of that statistic of folks who migrated over from PCs due to the "halo effect" of owning an iPod.  Although I consider myself a competent computer user, I am by no means a fanatick, nor do I spend all my time ass-deep in code and whatnot.  As such, I am completely enamored with the design of the Apple OS and its integrated programs.  While I realize it does not allow the same amount of personal control over the operating environment, it provides the freedom I need to work and accomplish the tasks that I care about, like email, websurfting, blogging, etc.  Speaking of blogging, the with the recent switch from .mac to MobileMe, I've had a hell of a time trying to upgrade the practice blog I have been working on in iWeb.  I have been experimenting since purchasing a .mac membership when I bought my computer, and it has a lot of great features to still explore, (what I love most is, again, the integration among all the different programs, making it ridiculously easy to create & post content).  I hope that Apple gets their collective shit together soon, and resolves all the issues they created when they decided to release the iPhone 3g, upgrade existing iPhone users to 2.0, AND transition to .mac to MobileMe all on the same day!  

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