Friday, February 17, 2012

It didn't start out as a rant...

My digital life is in shambles. A big fragmented mess. Within the past year I have (orbiting me) a netbook, 2 laptops, desktop, tablet (not iThingy) and two phones. And all these things run a plethora of operating systems and I have no less than 5 clouds, none of which want to talk to each other!

My blog is hosted on blogger.com (should be obvious if you're reading this), but I can't find a decent app for webOS (again, obvious) nor Linux. I can boot most of my Linux devices into Windows, but I hate waiting thru the long boot times. I'd prefer to stay in Linux, since I do all my work in/on Linux.

I hope to figure this all out soon. I know I can post content more often. Ideally, I could start writing an article on my phone, save it to the server, pick it up and edit further on a tablet, laptop, whatever.


But Why No New Blog Entries?!?

My resolution for this year was to start a blog. Well that was easy. But the resolution should have been to develop a blog with regular content, participate in the blogging community and so forth. I have read and learned a whole lot from other bloggers. I have noticed that:
  • bloggers love blogging about blogging
  • women dominate the blogosphere and totally rule Pinterest
  • there is an interesting connection between twitter and blogging
  • it is a friendly, cooperative community (or I guess set of communities)


An unexpected thing happened on my way to blogdom: I first kicked out a few posts and one project -- namely the simplest step-wise and to describe. After that, I set off on a what turned out to be, megapost titled The Ongoing History of My Workshops or something grandiose like that. As I kept expanding the scope and adding or arranging stuff, other ideas for articles kept popping up. Demanding attention! And then the term conjured itself up, I couldn't help it. I apologize and warn that the weak should probably stop reading.

Anyway, I was blogjammed. I envisioned old time loggers dropping too many trees into the river so as to get a massive logjam. So sorry about that. It won't happen again.

This article that started with a rant now ends on a positive note: I am planning a series of articles about my experiences using prefinished plywood for furniture. I am curious to compare notes with any other woodworkers that may have experimented using prefinished ply outside the kitchen cabinets. Anyone?

It's late and I'm afraid if I read over what I just wrote that it would get toss in the trash. So...I'll just hit the Publish button :-)