Thursday, September 04, 2003
I just finished reading Dead Air by Iain Banks. Brilliant book, though I'd expect no less form the best british writer out there at the mo. Two days to read a novel... that's something of a record for me, as I'm not a fast reader by any stretch of the imagination, I just couldn't put it down.Comments are still down, and likely to remain down untill the 8th at the very earliest. Oddly, I'm finding it rather liberating, blogging without comments. It's rather like going back to the very start, when I had no readers whatsoever, didn't care what anyone stumbling across my ramblings thought, and knowing that even if anyone did read it, they couldn't respond other than via email.
So, I won't be going in search of a new comments system. If yaccs gets it's act together and starts functioning again, all well and good, but if it doesn't, I don't care. I'll remain commentless and maybe get back to the purity of what blogging once was for me.
I think in truth I've become entirely jaded with blogging as a phenomenon.... the blogging scene. I used to read twenty or so blogs daily, even twice daily... clicking through them excpectantly to see what was going on in this odd little corner of unreality. I felt some kind of attachment to the people I read. These days... well, I still like these people, in as much as it's possible to know anyone from reading a few choice lines every day or so.... but for the most part, I just don't care that much any more.
Hmm... multiple deletes.... too much stuff that sounds negative, when really it's just a whole load of indifference. Time to sit back and take stock, decide what's important and what's not. This blog will continue, and perhaps be better for my not actually caring too much any more about how it's percieved. Self promotion after a time becomes just another chore. Lots of websites, high online profile... what a pain in the arse.
Steve 11:05 PM [+]
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