on the singular blog…
Andrew recently brought up something that I blogged/commented a long time ago but unfortunately can’t locate; the gist of it being that I felt the need to pull all my blogging ventures (which at the time was two blogs) under one digi-roof.
So why do I feel the need to do that?
I didn’t want to compartmentalize myself. It is really easy to make yourself into whoever you want to be on the web, but I have become convinced that in all aspects of my life I need to be genuine; that includes my online persona - this blog. Towards that effort, a while ago I brought my programming blog and my, um, everything else blog together. Now the online representation of Christian the writer of random things coexists with Christian the programmer.
I suppose it really doesn’t make that huge of a difference but it was something important that I needed to do. To genuinely present my thoughts, my interests, myself to the handful of close friends and bizzare stalkers who browse this site every now and then.
For a number of you, this blog is the only channel through which your understanding of me is refreshed. For others, it is just one of many. I hope it is cohesive.
It might be boring.
It might be infrequent.
It might be unexpected.
But like Evander Holyfied, it’s “The Real Deal.”
More-thoughtfully-blogged-than-usually-y’rs,
cw
November 23rd, 2004 at 2:50 pm
I like to think of it as a kind of mental ice-cream stand on the internet. Why? Because my brain wants ice-cream, that’s why.
November 23rd, 2004 at 2:54 pm
Also, how are you going about indexing and archiving it all? I’ve been thinking about trying to retrieve all that I’ve tossed into blogger, but I don’t
know if all of the stuff I was writing way back when is even on their servers anymore. Twould be nice to save it all and show future generations.
You know, to prove to them that any idiot can make into adulthood eventually.
November 23rd, 2004 at 4:18 pm
It’s too bad I already renamed my blog. I would have liked to call it the “Mental Ice Cream Shop”, or better yet, “The Mental Ice Cream Shoppe” for that old timey effect that is “so in” these days. You could even decide for yourself where in the sentence to place the emphasis - I would prefer the Wayne’s World interpretation myself.
Regarding indexing/archiving - all of this stuff is stored in a MySQL database. When I moved from my old hosting provider to my own server, I simply took a database dump and imported it into my new MySQL server. For those of you on Blogger, I am not sure what your options are if you decide to move elsewhere. It sure would suck to lose all that. I’d like to look back on all this blogged stuff someday and see that it was good. It would stink to lose it all…