One of the things I really hate is talking on the internet about talking on the internet. It reminds me of first discovering usenet, on lynx, way back when: I got so excited that there were these strangers out there who were interested in *exactly* the same things I liked, when my friends mostly just shook their heads and made that "she's a bit odd" expression. Problem was, finding out there were these cool people who did all these cool things and I could read what they had to say (I didn't do much talking on-line), well... of course I spent a lot of time reading what they had to say. After spending far too many hours on-line (and, in those days, three hours a week would have been far too much, given my limited free time and having to go to a lab to connect and all that), I bitched "I used to have a life, now I just read about it on the world wide web".
Writing a journal entry about writing a journal entry is exactly the same thing: totally lame. If I get so caught up in navel gazing that I feel the need to talk about the activity of navel gazing, sheesh... So, why this obvious "I don't walk the walk" entry? Why am I digging in my own belly button and offering up the lint?
Because the blank look of my rebuilt page annoys me. It has been rebuilt after going through and deleting yet another round of spam comments left by spambots who seemingly don't notice or care that their comments are no longer visible to anyone because I edited that part out of my templates. But if I do anything on the maintenance end of the weblog, I need to rebuild, and when I do that, only things I posted in the past week are shown on the main page. And I haven't posted anything in the past week! Furthermore, when I see it all blank like that, I'm reminded, once again, that I am the world's laziest web person, seeing as I'm *still* using the default template and stylesheet as it came out of the zip file. And it's not that I don't know *how* to make it look prettier than the defaults because clearly I do.
And clearly, I could spend some time doing all those things that weblogs are supposed to have, like an "about" page which lists those details about who the author is complete with picture and cryptic key to pseudo-names used here and the the disclaimer of "if you know me in real life it's your own fault if you're offended" and similar. Except not. Real names, and I don't think particularly offensive to anyone I know.
Or, I could provide some content. I could, for example, discuss my recent discovery of the term "eco porn". Or I could tell you how excited I am to finally find the hip hop version of the European Anthem (aka Beethoven's Ode to Joy) on-line. It makes me happy every time I listen to it. I'm listening to it right now!
Or I could just admit that I'm too damn lazy to update this page this week. I've updated the farm blog, and created the site that proves that I am, indeed domestic queen. But this page? Neglected. For now.
Posted by Johanna at October 13, 2004 04:54 PM