So I’ve just watched the NBA Finals Game 6, and man, I love High Def. HD is friggen sweet. I can’t imagine watching sports in standard def anymore. I’ve recently been watching a lot of World Cup soccer; and only because it’s in HD. It’s incredible. And let’s not even go into how much better video games are. But man. HD is great.
I just got this off of band random. Man, I never realized that’s what my hands looked like when I’m playing. That’s pretty sweet. Unfortunatly, this video doesn’t do the current band justice for sound. The live version during the Fred Fox Concert (this was a warm up) sound off the chain.
So you may have noticed some subtle changes I made to the site. But yeah, I went ahead and decided to change things up. And I’m pretty pleased with how things are looking right now. I’ve got a photo gallery set up. I’ve got ideas for what I want to do. I have my categories set up. Now, I just have to get into a regular posting schedule. So yeah, let’s see how this go.
Sometimes, I think if I weren’t a software person, my online life would be easier. Seriously. Right now, my current dilemma is whether I use a pre-canned look for my new blog site now, and then just update it to something totally my own later. Or do I wait and get it looking just right, and then upload it. And I’m having a hard time figuring it out.
Right now, I’m really having a problem getting over the fact that, for the first time, the site wouldn’t be my total creation. In fact, if I go with it now, none of the code will really be mine. It will be someone else’s. And that’s just hard to get over, given my own pride.
And that’s what it really is. It’s pride. It’s the smugness I’ve always felt by saying, I wrote my blog entirely from scratch. Every single detail was mine. The look, the functionality, everything. It was mine. Correction, it was me. It was my online presence. My own personal little stake in cyberspace that I crafted with my own two digital hands. I was proud of that. It was cool.
But the internet landscape has changed.
And while my digital stake had all the basics, it was no longer modern. I mean, when I built it, it was sweet. It showed my skills. But now, it’s old, and locks many of the modern amenities that I really want. And that’s what this comes down to. It’s hard to acknowledge that while I did a good job of building my site, there are people out there who really put a lot of thought, work and effort into making blogging systems. It’s their thing. And that’s the big difference.
It’s not my thing. And they clearly do it better.
That’s a hard thing to swallow. Realizing that maybe it’s time to let someone else do the building. And that’s where I stand. For now, it’s probably best to let someone else build and paint the house. I can live with that. I’ll eventually repaint it’s exterior and makes some changes down the road. But as of this moment, I just need to swallow my pride, and let someone else provide me with all of the indoor plumbing and electicity I want.
Um…wow. I’m getting really bad about updating. I just checked my site, and it seems that I haven’t really updated in over twenty days. It seems that in the past two and a half months, I’ve only updated a total of seven times. That’s just…sad. I really need to do a better job of updating.
So what have I been doing with myself these past few weeks? Well, kind of what I’ve been doing for the past couple of months? Working, hanging out with friends, playing video games, and oh yeah, I went to Reunions. That really sums up my life right now. I hang out with my friends; I chillax; I work. I like it.
Unfortunately, my life has been fulfilling enough that I’ve kind of just let blogging slip from my mind. Well that, and I’m kind of fed up with my blog system. As cool as it to say that I’ve built this thing on my own, I’m really tired of maintaining it. I just don’t have it in me to go through and fight comment spam, remember to check my comments (which I have always been horrible about), and try to keep up with.
So I’m going to be making a change. Don’t worry, I’m not going to stop blogging. I’ve been chronically my life for almost three and a half years now. I like having the record of what I’ve been doing.
I just don’t feel like having to worry about the code that holds all of it.
Therefore, I’m biting the bullet and moving to a standard, pre-packaged blog system. After talking with my man, Tos; and a bit of research and tinkering, I’ve decided that I’m going to be going with Word Press. I’m not going to go into all of the whys, but let’s just say, it’s going to make life easier and give me all of the functionality I really want, with much less of the hassle.
So over the next couple of days, I hope to get WordPress set up and running efficiently. I’m seeing this as being a good weekend for it (Nicole is out of town, and I haven’t heard any rumblings from my friends about things going on). So yeah, take in all that is my old site. Revel in it’s…um…I don’t know. But hopefully, this will soon be replaced with a system that will drive me much less crazy.
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