On Blogging
So it's that time of year again, I'm stuck in the Sth. Ken library with nothing better to do that to play around with my old blog again.
I often wonder if I should post to this thing more often, but then I figure that the people who I would be communicating to already talk to me over IM or phone pretty much every day anyway.
Blogging is a great way for remote people you maybe can't speak to face to face, or over the phone.People you don't even know. Fans of your work say, or people researching something you write about.
I, however, don't have much to write that I figure people would want to read regularly. I don't have a specialist subject worthy of blogging, and people are fairly aware of my comings and goings via Facebook or Google Talk.
Back in school, and prior to the 'MySpace' revolution, it was on personal websites and forums that extra-curricular activities were discussed and photos were published. It was then that my blogging frequency was at it's zenith. I now use Facebook/Flickr for my photos, and any events are organized over Facebook and/or IM.
Besides, I have vastly reduced my involvement with the internet on a technical basis and am more a layman when it comes to my use of it. I Google, Email and Facebook like the common people now. Sure, I'm always interested in new technology, I'm not an old man yet. Though I'm also not one to live in the 'Beta Land' of new software as much as I was. I don't need Firefox Extensions to be a happy computer user, I don't need to know the latest programming language in order to navigate the internet (as I once thought I did).
For example, I own a Macintosh notebook, I know it has loads of geekiness under the hood, but I'm now only bothered about it's good looks and ease of use for the basics of computing.
The bleeding edge of technology is a good distance ahead of me now. I'm more knowledgeable than most, but I don't think myself to be an expert at anything anymore. And you know what? I like it back here.
I often wonder if I should post to this thing more often, but then I figure that the people who I would be communicating to already talk to me over IM or phone pretty much every day anyway.
Blogging is a great way for remote people you maybe can't speak to face to face, or over the phone.People you don't even know. Fans of your work say, or people researching something you write about.
I, however, don't have much to write that I figure people would want to read regularly. I don't have a specialist subject worthy of blogging, and people are fairly aware of my comings and goings via Facebook or Google Talk.
Back in school, and prior to the 'MySpace' revolution, it was on personal websites and forums that extra-curricular activities were discussed and photos were published. It was then that my blogging frequency was at it's zenith. I now use Facebook/Flickr for my photos, and any events are organized over Facebook and/or IM.
Besides, I have vastly reduced my involvement with the internet on a technical basis and am more a layman when it comes to my use of it. I Google, Email and Facebook like the common people now. Sure, I'm always interested in new technology, I'm not an old man yet. Though I'm also not one to live in the 'Beta Land' of new software as much as I was. I don't need Firefox Extensions to be a happy computer user, I don't need to know the latest programming language in order to navigate the internet (as I once thought I did).
For example, I own a Macintosh notebook, I know it has loads of geekiness under the hood, but I'm now only bothered about it's good looks and ease of use for the basics of computing.
The bleeding edge of technology is a good distance ahead of me now. I'm more knowledgeable than most, but I don't think myself to be an expert at anything anymore. And you know what? I like it back here.
posted by Jon at 1:16 pm
4 Comments:
"When I was a child I thought as a child..."
Wallet
Jon's Gay!
tried to search you one facebook but i cannae find you!
Hows things these days?
Long time no speak, would be good to be in touch again dude.
Mike Barrett
Come and warm yourself by the fire and have a loving talk , if you like :) ... red foxes are all about uniting people who love , all around the world , as ONE ....
http://christianforums.com/t6244984-red-foxes-talking-circle.html
http://christianforums.com/t6524589-red-foxes-fire-circle.html
Messiah:
From another place,
one seed fell here,
on the edge of this hill ...
This now-tall spreading
knew no surrender.
No other
measured this steely purpose...
this was
no war
of proof...
But your sure
becoming,
in isolation
from their
gusty winds.
And now you bend ...
with the gale
which blows
and your needle shower
scourges
the bare
blasted
Scottish rock
and solitary pine,
you know
the strange happiness
of
your desolate home...
and I know
that I
shall come again ...
The End of Tears? :
Youth runs with
the will to beat the odds
and did u too think
it was a game ...
and u found
a way to win?
what now your surety
when it is over.
- did u too think it was real for a while?
did u not know a kiss or two
that might have awoken the heart?
You run the old familiar
hideaways
a quick fix,
turning tricks,
to face the gore again
and forget
the meaning of the tears
your ultimate grasp fails again
as you slip unknowing into the
unfolding masterpiece once more
... once more ...
did u really need to forget in order to live
or was it illusion?
how far then will u go...
how many unheeded promises
... to yourself?
will you come home with us?
will you let us share
your pain,
for we have known it too
and now know its end?
or will you stay
mingled with crowds
a while
longer
leave till later
that quiet part of you
that you too
forgot to do.
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