03.24.03
High moral seriousness
I have plenty of work to do, you know.
I’ve been thinking quite a bit about the sort of stuff that ends up in this blog, compared to what I imagined I’d use it for. There’s currently a world of difference, and I’d like to close the gap.
That means fewer posts, fewer off-the-cuff “did you see that” posts, more research, which in turn basically means exclusively writing from home. Also, as I mentioned, I do have plenty of work to do, and I’d hate to have this interfere with work.
Sadly, the home broadband connection is still not up (that’s three weeks, if you’re listening, Pipex customer support), so I’m probably going to enter a short, unhelpfully uncommunicative period.
I’ll still be here. I’ll still be posting, and reading. If I’m relatively quiet, that means (amongst other things) I’m working on good stuff for here and elsewhere. If I’m garrulous, it means I’m procrastinating, and I should be chastised accordingly.
What I hope is that … wow, that’s Wilf Lunn’s website that Diamond Geezer is linking to. Wilf Lunn!
Erm. What was I saying?
Blue Witch said,
March 24, 2003 at 3:13 pm
But Jon, isn’t half the joy of a blog that it doesn’t have to end up how it started out, or how you’d planned it? It sort of takes on its own momentum and direction.
The danger of not posting is that it loses any kind of momentum it has built up, and the danger of posting too much of the same sort of thing is that it attracts just a niche audience. Or dies quietly in blog-land.
Are you suffering from a I shouldn’t be posting from work guilt-trip by any chance, or am I reading too much into your repetitive phraseology?
Jon said,
March 24, 2003 at 4:15 pm
Yes, yes, and I-haven’t-the-foggiest-what-you’re-talking-about-honest-really-BW-where-do -you-get-these-strange-ideas-from.
Funnily enough, one of the things I’m thinking is that I am posting too much of the same sort of thing, and I need to mix it up a little. I doubt I’m ever going to reach a situation where I don’t post off-the-cuff stuff while at…er, home. It’s the stuff that isn’t off-the-cuff that gets lost at the moment. Or, in short: enuffoffcuffstuff.
Now there’s a name for a blog.