As many may have noticed, I’ve rebuilt my entire website within a new wordpress framework. So now, instead of being a website that merely bears the faint resemblance of a blog, it has converted itself into an actual blog that…bears the resemblance of a website. Is this distinction important? I think so. If you look back at the history of this site you will notice, to my embarrassment, that I have only posted three times. Over the course of three years. Two possible reasons come to mind:
1) New posts were (slightly) more difficult to produce, requiring me to edit the html code itself, then enter my file manager, upload the thing, review, etc. Nothing truly difficult, but discouraging nonetheless.
or 2) It takes me an entire year to come up with anything important to say.
Assuming the first reason was true, then wordpress should solve the problem. Now, I can post new entries within a matter of seconds! There are Brand New Features! (Except for the ever elusive one that will simply write the entire blog for me…)
So, what does this have to do with LTUE? As you’ll have already noticed. It is always during Life the Universe and Everything that I find my motivation to work on this website at all. It’s been the yearly reminder that…social networking…is actually… (gulp) somewhat important. There… I’ve said it. You see, after the advent of amazon (the website, not the rainforest…or warrior women), the whole publishing business has been in a state of flux. No longer can publishers reliably advertise in actual physical bookstores because…most people don’t use them anymore. Instead, publicity is found online. On blogs. And stuff.
Which means nothing to you. Because, if you’re reading this post at all, then I’ve told you absolutely nothing that you didn’t already know. It does, however, bring me back to my older argument: if wordpress allows me to create new posts in mere seconds, I don’t need to wait an entire year to come up with Important Things to Say. I can post unimportant thoughts as well! And hopefully, post them more often.