Monday, October 18, 2004
Hi honey, I'm home!
Bet you didn't see that coming, now did you? After sixteen months of masquerading as a website, my blog is now officially back to being a blog.
Anyone who's regularly been following along knows that I've been struggling to keep up with the task of cranking out new content for this site on a daily basis since...well, since August, really. Part of it is that I just haven't been able to find the time in the day (building your own start-up company from scratch can do that to your schedule), but there's been more to it than that. Even though the Macintosh universe is in the best and most exciting place it's been in since I've been a Mac user, I've found myself having a harder and harder time writing about it -- and I really had to take a step back and look at why.
Somewhere along the line, I'd gotten myself wrapped around the idea that this site needed precisely one full-length, well-rehearsed, single-topic, standard-issue article per day. The funny thing is, though, that the Macintosh universe just doesn't ever quite manage to unfold in that manner, either on a personal or global level. There have been days when there were five different things I wanted to write about but, not being able to focus on just one, ended up not writing about anything. And then there are days when I don't really have anything of my own to write about, but man is there ever something I wanted to link to and then just blab a little bit about...but I just couldn't figure out how to work it into one of my standard-issue articles. It seemed that gradually, I'd locked myself into a format that forced me to either crank things out in a certain manner, or not crank anything out at all.
And as much of an impulsive, manic, spastic writer as I am, being locked into a wooden format is not a good place for me to be. So I decided to go back, way back, all the way to the beginning, to see what was different back when I was at my best on this site. And you know what? It was only then that I even consciously remembered that this site began life as nothing more than a Macintosh-themed blog. And you know what else? It was a good one, too. I was busy as heck back then, posting bits and pieces here and there, when I could, often making four or five separate entries in the same day on various different topics and in various different manners...and above all, I was never, ever locked into any kind of preconceived notions about what I should or should not write about. As long as it was somehow about Apple or about the Mac, it fit here. It didn't matter if it was five paragraphs about my latest trip to the Apple Store, or simply a reposting of an interesting Mac anecdote someone sent me via email. But here I am a year and a half later, busy as all heck once again, just as excited about the Mac platform as ever (even more so, I think), and yet somehow, I've backed myself into a corner in which I can't manage to come up with anything to say about it? Nonsense.
So I'm taking the shackles off and just going back to the old blog format. The goal will simply be what it was back in March of 2003 when I founded this site: to write about Mac-related stuff that I find interesting, and hopefully you'll find it interesting as well. Anything else is just a distraction, and so I'm just going to keep it all as simple as possible. It just so happens that my old Blogger account is still intact after all this time, so I've simply decided to move back to it -- same old template and everything. Alright, so a few little changes to the old template here and there, but not so much as to spoil things.
And so we'll see what happens. I've learned a thing or two in the past year and a half, so I very much doubt things will be exactly as they were way back when I founded this site. But I think this is going to be fun. Feel free to let me know what you think.
Bet you didn't see that coming, now did you? After sixteen months of masquerading as a website, my blog is now officially back to being a blog.
Anyone who's regularly been following along knows that I've been struggling to keep up with the task of cranking out new content for this site on a daily basis since...well, since August, really. Part of it is that I just haven't been able to find the time in the day (building your own start-up company from scratch can do that to your schedule), but there's been more to it than that. Even though the Macintosh universe is in the best and most exciting place it's been in since I've been a Mac user, I've found myself having a harder and harder time writing about it -- and I really had to take a step back and look at why.
Somewhere along the line, I'd gotten myself wrapped around the idea that this site needed precisely one full-length, well-rehearsed, single-topic, standard-issue article per day. The funny thing is, though, that the Macintosh universe just doesn't ever quite manage to unfold in that manner, either on a personal or global level. There have been days when there were five different things I wanted to write about but, not being able to focus on just one, ended up not writing about anything. And then there are days when I don't really have anything of my own to write about, but man is there ever something I wanted to link to and then just blab a little bit about...but I just couldn't figure out how to work it into one of my standard-issue articles. It seemed that gradually, I'd locked myself into a format that forced me to either crank things out in a certain manner, or not crank anything out at all.
And as much of an impulsive, manic, spastic writer as I am, being locked into a wooden format is not a good place for me to be. So I decided to go back, way back, all the way to the beginning, to see what was different back when I was at my best on this site. And you know what? It was only then that I even consciously remembered that this site began life as nothing more than a Macintosh-themed blog. And you know what else? It was a good one, too. I was busy as heck back then, posting bits and pieces here and there, when I could, often making four or five separate entries in the same day on various different topics and in various different manners...and above all, I was never, ever locked into any kind of preconceived notions about what I should or should not write about. As long as it was somehow about Apple or about the Mac, it fit here. It didn't matter if it was five paragraphs about my latest trip to the Apple Store, or simply a reposting of an interesting Mac anecdote someone sent me via email. But here I am a year and a half later, busy as all heck once again, just as excited about the Mac platform as ever (even more so, I think), and yet somehow, I've backed myself into a corner in which I can't manage to come up with anything to say about it? Nonsense.
So I'm taking the shackles off and just going back to the old blog format. The goal will simply be what it was back in March of 2003 when I founded this site: to write about Mac-related stuff that I find interesting, and hopefully you'll find it interesting as well. Anything else is just a distraction, and so I'm just going to keep it all as simple as possible. It just so happens that my old Blogger account is still intact after all this time, so I've simply decided to move back to it -- same old template and everything. Alright, so a few little changes to the old template here and there, but not so much as to spoil things.
And so we'll see what happens. I've learned a thing or two in the past year and a half, so I very much doubt things will be exactly as they were way back when I founded this site. But I think this is going to be fun. Feel free to let me know what you think.
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