2 weeks. That’s how long it’s been since I last posted. Yeah, uh, about that…
So posting on a blog, I think, comes in waves. You go through a couple of weeks where you’re super-crazy about posting and can barely constrain yourself from posting only one article per day. Then there are the times when you just don’t feel like posting, you’re just not that excited about it. Maybe you just need to recharge.
In regard to the wave analogy, maybe it’s like a sine and cosine wave. (Can you tell I’m learning about this at school?) So, the equation of my posting habits would look something like a cosine wave (starting with lots of posting.) I would probably look something like y=4cos(pi/2)x+3, with the x-axis representing the number of posts I would make per week. Sometimes it goes as high as 7 (4 is the max of the wave, plus a vertical shift of 3) or as low as -1, meaning I don’t post for at all for a week. Or maybe it’s for two weeks. I don’t know. And then the pi/2 means that this wave happens every four weeks.
The point is somehow it’s mathematical and I’m smart and I just did my math homework and I feel like I’m ready to start posting again. Maybe. Don’t hold your breath. I mean, this post doesn’t even count, it’s just me saying that I want to post more and making a “mathematical” equation out of it.
Hmmm… someone should figure out how many posts on personal blogs talk about that fact that the blog in question isn’t being updated very often. I think it would be interestingly high. But I will post again. Probably this weekend. Maybe tomorrow. Hopefully on Monday. Definitely on/after election day. Speaking of which, can you believe we’re only 3 days away? Wow.
McCain/Palin ‘08!!!
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I’ve written previously about why I blog, even though I have such a tiny audience. In that post, I estimated that I had less than 10 regular/casual readers. And then five people commented on the post, saying how much they liked my blog and wanted me to keep doing it! But, the way I see it, all of these people come to my blog for different reasons.
My family comes here to know what’s going on with me, but others may read because they like a specific topic that I write about – whether it be movies, music, links, or technology. And then I got to wonder, who likes what, and why? Should I write more about my life (what I’m doing this summer, pictures from trips, etc.), the newest iPhone, The Dark Knight, or my latest movie?
I don’t plan to completely change the focus of the blog, and I can guess pretty well who likes what. But I think it would be interesting for people to say what they like for me to write about the most and why. Again, I’m not going to do anything drastic – I’m just interested. I think that I’m still naturally going to write about whatever I feel like just because it is, after all, my blog.
Tell me in the comments.
Hey! It’s me, Austen! Remember me! Yeah… I know it’s been a while but I’m back now. You’re probably wondering, where have I been? The reason that I haven’t posted in 3 weeks is pretty much the same reason all the other times I’ve taken blogging hiatuses – School. But I had my last final yesterday and now I’m back.
Let’s take a look at what has happened since my last post:
- Barack Obama finally won the Democratic Primary! Like for real. Like… Hillary actually admitted that he won. So she’s gone….. we think.
- School.
- Is.
- Over.
- Firefox 3 was finally released!
- The new 3G iPhone was released – 2 times faster, half the price.
And… that’s all the content that I can think of for now. I’ll have a new post tomorrow. Probably. Hopefully. Most likely. I think.
Ouch. I just noticed that I haven’t posted here in over two weeks. Since April 1st! Well, I didn’t exactly mean for that to happen. I guess it just… did. But I was very busy, I promise! Very, very busy. With school, and, like, school and stuff.
I’ll have a few posts coming up about what exactly has been going on recently. Sure, I could just list it all here in this post, but then I’d just have this one huge humongous post about 5 different things, when I could have 5 regular posts that take up 5 times as much space!
So I guess the point of this post is me saying “Hey, hello! Hi, yeah. I’m still here. Just a bit busy. I’m going to talk about nothing for this post, but I promise more posts will follow!”
I hope I didn’t just jinx it.
Published on
March 25, 2008 at
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Life and Netsua.com.
Tags: back, chair, coversutra, extension, firefox, grapple, hacked, haircut, history, Life, matchbox 20, netsua, phone, Technology, theme.
It’s been a while, I know. But now I’m back and hopefully secure (thanks Aaron.)
Anyway, it’s been over a month since my last post, which I am very sorry for. But, life took over and I just didn’t have the time to put the site back up. But now it’s back up, and I’m running the newest, shiniest version of Wordpress which is, by the way, great.
What else is great?
- The GrApple theme for Firefox, which makes it look 99% like Safari.
- Firefox 3 Beta 4
- Matchbox 20, specifically their album “Exile on Mainstream”
- My grade in History (once the extra credit gets counted, that is)
- Coversutra (which I got in the Macheist bundle)
- My new chair!
- My new haircut! (ok, not so great, but still)
- My new dual-hinge phone! (It flips BOTH ways!!!!!!!)
That’s all for today.
I’ve just implemented a combined RSS and Web 2.0 sidebar thing onto the site. Why? Because I can. But really, I saw these beautiful iPhone-esque icons at Fasticon.com and had to use them somehow. So I threw out the default RSS “Subscribe” module, and replaced it with a large and pretty icon. Then I used arne’s Delicious (and other services) Bookmark this! plugin for Wordpress to allow all 18 of you to quickly add one of my exciting blog posts to Digg, Delicious, Newsvine, or Furl.
But that’s not all! If you click one of the four smaller icons from a specific blog post, it will take you directly to a page on the service of your choice, with that specific post already filled in! I know, amazing. Not that anyone here would use that very often. But I might… And it looks cool anyway. You can even do it below for this post!
PHP does some really cool things. I really should’ve taken that class as my elective this year… but when it’s up against Film there’s just no way that I’ll choose it.
I’ve realized that whenever I promise to do something regarding this blog, I don’t end up doing it. For instance, a couple of weeks ago I promised to write a Harry Potter 5 review. Never happened. I started it – I wrote about a paragraph – but by the time I felt like coming back to it the movie was weeks old.
If I say that I’ll take lots of pictures before a vacation, I usually only take a few. But if I don’t say anything, I come back with lots. It happened again just recently… at the beginning of June I said I wouldn’t be able to post much then, but that I would post like I had been previously (approximately every day) once July came around. I made only 1 more post in July then I did in June.
See? Is that enough? It’s a jinx! Whenever I say I’ll do something, I never end up doing! So, I promise to take zero photos while in Florida next week, and I promise to post very little in August. There. Let’s see what happens.
