Blogging
Originally published June 2004
For want of anything else to write about.
As is obvious from quiet a few things, I am not much of a blogger.
I took it up because I found that reading some other people’s blogs was an extremely interesting exercise. But my normally very analytical intellect failed to grasp the difference between flipping channels on a television and actually making a documentary film.
I think it is safe to assume that I shall never have, whatever it takes to become a blogger.
But that doesn’t change anything; so hey what the hell!
Now there are some things that I usually do, before and during the pursuit of any activity.
First I try and find out how the thing works. This usually is made far simpler if the thing involves the internet or computers; or quite often both. And this is not a superficial analysis. I have to know everything bottom up; inside out.
Then I try to find out how much I can personalize it. Again this is not mere customization; but I must find out whether or not I can implement the whole process from scratch, myself. If the possibility exists I have to do it as well.
Lastly I implement my version of the whole system.
Quite often this means that the original point-of-the-matter is lost.
As in the case of blogging; I very simply don’t.
However I must say that the huge grin inside my head, both when I had my first blog or when I posted the poem about sleep (or rather about somebody telling me how important it was)(which also was the first time I published the blog to my personal page); was absolutely worth it.