TechgnosisWeb ReBoot

What, you thought I’d just let this blog die, ignored and unloved? You thought I could just sit there and recklessly let this poor little blog fade away into obscurity?

Yeah, well, you mostly thought right. For the past year or two, I’ve barely been able to string enough words together to make a post on Twitter, much less sit down to write a proper blog post. And yet, here I am. Blame Anthony Bourdain.

Don’t get me wrong, I’ve been perfectly happy just twittering my thoughts away, casually tossing out little bits of brilliance and banality mixed together, occasionally folding in a link from Flickr or Tumblr or some other web service when 140 characters just weren’t quite enough. And this might have continued for the indefinite future, if it wasn’t for the Travel Channel and Anthony Bourdain. There I was, sitting, watching No Reservations and feeling vaguely dissatisfied with my existence, when it hit me: that’s what I want to do. Well, not exactly what Anthony does, I don’t have the money or a camera crew. But, his way of just writing about what he experiences, expressing himself in spur of the moment, train of thought, rambling yet coherent little vignettes, that’s what I want to do. And that requires more than Twitter can give me.

I needed to get back to blogging. And, hey, lookit that, it just so happens I have a little blog here that I’ve kept going on and off since 2003. Excellent! Combine that with my recent acquisition of an ASUS Eee PC 1000H (dubbed ‘teh Shiny’), and, well.. I no longer have much of an excuse not to blog. I want to, I can, and I will.

So, of course, being the expert procrastinator that I am, I immediately began the arduous work of blogging.. or, err, preparing to blog. I upgraded Wordpress to the latest version. I installed a new theme. Downloaded new plugins and set them up, got and installed API keys, configured everything until it was working to my satisfaction. And once I was done, I sat with teh Shiny on my lap, my ‘I Blogged Your Mom’ shirt on for good measure, and I stared at the ‘Add New Post’ page on my blog.. and I drew a complete and total blank.

This was off to a great start.

So, of course, I pulled that most traditional of all writerly cop-outs: I wrote about my problems with writing, and how I have no ideas. And, will you look at that, it worked! Already have a full blog post, and it’s cost me practically no work. Eeeeexcelent.

So, stick around. I’m back. I’ll try to update daily or more, but no promises. I’ll also try to be a bit more entertaining. I may not get to travel to many exotic locales, but I’m still on a journey. And as they say, it’s the journey, not the destination. I’ll try to make the trip worth remembering. And follow me on Twitter, its where most of my stray thoughts go these days anyway.

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