October 12, 2007
· Filed under Blogging, Introspection
This blogging business is actually harder than initially expected. I always rather thought of diaries as something you could do if you wanted but that it required no real skill or talent.
I have now found that thoughts and opinions along those lines will only give you a hard smack with the Mallet of Arrogance Slaying. It is tough, very tough actually and I’m not very good at it.
I think the first thing I have to learn is to categorize my thoughts so that I can become better at distinguishing the interesting from the glaring mundane. You have 24 hours every day, most of those hours are spent doing things that are not that interesting from a “writing them down” point of view.
Yesterday evening I sat staring at the ludicrous sub-title: “Thoughts and wisdom” and then it struck me: Write down your thoughts and your comments to your thoughts. It will become tedious sometimes of course but it it propably better to write SOMETHING instead of writing NOTHING.
Here’s to trying anyway, I’ll attempt to write at least three times every week (no need to set up idealistic and un-realistic goals that can only result in failure).
August 14, 2007
· Filed under Blogging, Family, Friends
Started writing that hobby page and met a challenge: You can’t very well mention other people unless you know they are okay with it. Therefore I’ll be using pseudonyms for my friends. At least I have friends who are readily identifiable so I’ll just label them the Naval Officer, the Doctor, the Lawyer, the Designer, the Ambassador, the Priest, and the Market Director. That should make it pretty obvious to those who know them and pretty opaque to those who don’t.
August 14, 2007
· Filed under Blogging
… but what am I going to use it for?
So far I find that I have about 10 hits. Not a lot but on the other hand the blog hasn’t been up for more than 24 hours. Enough to be encouraging but not enough to start thinking megalomaniacal thoughts of “Today the internet, tomorrow the World!” or something like that.
I think I’ll use this platform as a sort of diary (yellow card for unimaginative idea) and as a repository for my ideas concerning my hobbies (second yellow card for obvious use of free webspace). I think I’ll create separate pages for my hobbies and fill them out as I write things for them. That way people (red card for thinking anyone anywhere would ever read this) can easily find new entries.
August 13, 2007
· Filed under Blogging, Introspection
There is an impressive amount of options associated with the maintenance of this blog site. Just started browsing through the parameters and setup options and I just know that at some point I will disable some key component that I can’t find again. I’m an IT professional (and has been for several years) but I’m also a notorious “I-wonder-how-this-works” kind of person. With this in mind I couldn’t help but laugh at my pompous tagline “Thoughts and wisdom….”
I think it should more clearly be labelled “Enter at own risk”.
August 13, 2007
· Filed under Blogging, Introspection
Blogging is new to me.
And since I’m a late arrival on this scene all my usual usernames have already been taken. So you start thinking about other names and you discard quite a few of the spontaneous ones as they are really bad (but might bring a smile to your face) and then you (mistakenly) start trying to be philosophical.
My last name is Green and this is an experiment (the blogging, not that my name is Green, I’m pretty sure that was deliberate) so I started thinking about that. Experiments in comics are always about bubbling vials and what have you. So I pictured this as my think-tank so to speak, where I can write whatever nonsense that I come up with.
The think tank (taken) was converted into the thought tank (taken) and later into GreenTank (not taken). Now that I look at the name I can see why it wasn’t taken, it sounds like the armored weaponry of a pissed-off eco-guerilla nutcase. But there it is and I’ll be damned if I change it now.
