Macrolog
One Thousand
It’s a little hard to believe that I’ve reached the 1000 post mark here at the OM&TR. Harder still to imagine I might have arrived weeks ago, if it weren’t for my deleting a number of useless entries in a fit of quality control early last year.
When I started this thing in November 2001, over two-and-a-half years ago, 1000 was an intimidating number. I read weblogs at the time that had broken that barrier long before I discovered them, and the thought of me doing the same was a fantastical notion. A thousand-word essay was long enough, but a thousand blog posts? Unfathomable! Did I really have that much to say?
Yet when I look back now on the intervening weeks, months and years it appears, funnily enough, that I did. And I do. Whether most of it is worth reading or not is debatable, but I’ve gone too far now to throw in the towel.
Here’s to another thousand, at least.
Mon 09 Aug 2004 at 15:42 ·
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Sad Peter Pan
Mon 09 Aug 2004
at 16:44
Congratumalations! Explodes annoying party popper right in your face
My weekly average is very low at the moment. It’s been all fits and bursts for the last few months.
My most productive period was the latter half of 2002: I must have written about 250 entries in those six months alone. More recently, I wrote most of my best stuff last summer, when my creative juices were really flowing. This year, I’ve been disappointed with myself.
The Linklog helps a lot, though, because I never stop surfing the web, I never stop reading weblogs (I’m addicted to feedreading) and I want to share things that interest me even when I’m too lazy to write about them in any detail. It might be relegated to the sidebar on the main page, but I consider my Linklog to be just as important.
I never stop working on this site, either. But I’ve been getting lost in the technical and design side of things when I should be concentrating on the words and the ideas. For instance, I’ve just upgraded to Movable Type 3.0, and as a side effect it seems that comments can no longer be added automatically. Instead of writing about one of fifty million things I’ve saved in my ‘blogfodder’ folder, I’ll have to fix that.
That comments thing? It can’t be fixed. It seems to be a bug in Movable Type 3.01, but it is technically a developers’ release so it’s not that surprising. I’ve written more about it on the next entry, Regarding Notes & Queries.
Posted by
Sad Peter Pan
Sun 15 Aug 2004
at 12:40
Hey Mac, you should have a comments thing for the linklog - that would be cool.
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