Archive for the ‘blogging’ Category

An insight into my editing process

Tuesday, February 21st, 2006

My blog posts don't just spring fully-formed from my mind - I tend to edit and rewrite most of my posts somewhat before posting them. I often do this by putting my cursor at the first point in the post that needs changing, and then rewriting all the way to the end. After several iterations of this, I sometimes end up with a bunch of bits of abandoned post after the end of the finished post. For example, at the end of my post from two days ago I almost deleted the following pile of "scrap":

"don't think anyone would be capable of covering up such a massive the Bush administration that the fires could not have brought down the towers, but it is interesting to read all the unanswered questions about that day."

But instead I decided to write this post about it.

Debauchery and snogging

Thursday, December 1st, 2005

I've just been looking at my website usage statistics. Damn those wedding and honeymoon pictures generated a lot of traffic - almost 1600 hits for the wedding pictures and almost 800 for the honeymoon ones!

One of my largest referrers is Yahoo Image search and a very large fraction of those are from people searching for "debauchery" or "snogging". Should I be worried about this trend?

I have a buffer

Monday, August 29th, 2005

I want to avoid any more long periods of not writing in my blog from now on - in fact I hope to post every day. In order to achieve this I have taken a leaf from the book of Raymond Chen (possibly one of the most famous, influential and respected Microsoft bloggers). Raymond posts at 7am every weekday without fail and can do this so consistently (even when he is on holiday) because he has a backlog of posts which currently reaches into late December. So, while some friends were visiting for tea yesterday, I created a buffer of my own.

Now that I have a backlog, when I think of something to write I can jot down a few notes and gradually refine it into a fully-fledged post during the time it's in the queue, instead of planning it and writing it - I longer have to make it into a fully polished post straight away. Maybe this kind of defies the point of blogging (which is supposed to be a raw, unpolished, up to the minute, stream of consciousness kind of thing) but it fits my perfectionist writing style better. I'm sure I'll still make posts about my day-to-day life from time to time, but for the most part I'll talk here about things which interest me and thoughts I've had.

In other news, things achieved today: hair is cut, car oil is replaced and media PC is (hopefully) fixed. I even went to work for a little bit.