The ten entries currently on the front page stretch back a year. The entry before this one was written six months ago. That’s… not really a good update frequency. So for the last week or so I’ve been reconsidering the whole format for this site.

It’s easy for me to tell why I’m not writing more: there’s just not a whole lot of stuff going on in my life. I was way more active back when I was in school and actually did stuff.

So writing full-blown blog entries is a no-go in my current situation. I have, however, been quite active on Twitter lately. That’s a format that feels a lot more comfortable for me now — bite-sized observations condensed into less than 140 characters.

A week passes…

Yes. It’s now one week later. That’s how difficult it is for me to write something of substance right now. Those last two entries? Wrote them in the meanwhile. They were just a link and a short rant; that’s easy to manage.

Though I did just upgrade WordPress to the latest version and did some general maintenance on the nuts and bolts and got a brief spurt of creativity. At least I got something done on the site.

Another week passes…

Yep. Serious problems writing. And this isn’t exactly a format where I can just click “publish” without feeling that the entry is somewhat complete — blogging doesn’t lend itself to a disjointed thought stream spread out between unconnected entries.

In some vaguely related news, Dean Allen is writing again. And his latest entry mirrors my experience in a rather interesting way:

You’ll agree that everything deserves a second chance. A few months ago Twitter started slowly making sense.

I joined Twitter very early. Here is a graph of my usage — you’ll note the huge spike a few months back. That coincides with a forum thread about Twitter on the Penny Arcade forums.

A bunch of like-minded gaming nerds talking about Twitter and following each other rekindled my interest in Twitter, and it shows in that graph. Much easier to write for an audience.

Where to take it from here? I don’t really have much of an idea, right now I just want to get this damn entry done and click publish.

I have some half-baked plans about a new format that, though not intentionally, is essentially what Jason Kottke is doing with his site — a stream of short (though not of Twitter-length) entries mixed in with the longer stuff, maybe hook in my Twitter updates every now and then. We’ll see.

At any rate, even getting this brainfart-slash-rant down on virtual paper made my interest jump. While I do like the lovely MistyLook theme I’m currently using, I think I’ll make a theme of my own sometime soon. I can never really get used to other people’s style of writing CSS.

Now to see if cross-posting to Twitter when I write a new entry works. Here goes nothing!

And the end of the hour in Sydney was celebrated with fireworks. Yeah, good job there. “We saved energy! Let’s celebrate this by polluting the environment!”

Want to do something for nature? Go outside, take a walk, pick up garbage for an hour. Of course, that involves some actual work instead of turning off most of your lights and patting yourself on the back, so I guess that’ll never get popular.