I look away for just a moment, and it’s suddenly been over a week since I last posted.

I guess I’ve been in a blogging rut for a while now. This happens every now and then. I stop writing about subjects that interest me, and I start writing about subjects that I think others will find interesting. And being clueless concerning what other people find interesting, I just stop writing.

My brain has been a bit scattered lately. I’ve been keeping up with my physical hobbies, but anything requiring quiet concentration, after work hours, hasn’t been happening. I’ve only finished one book in the last two months, for example. When I think of a topic I’d like to write about during the day, my enthusiasm has vanished by the time I get to the computer, and I’m left starting at a blinking cursor, wondering what I have the the cupboards for a snack.

I’ll get over it soon, or I’ll disappear for a nine month hiatus. Those are the two usual routes I take, but statistically I’ll get over it soon.

The site design has changed. I’ve once again used a WordPress template, as I was too lazy to design my own. I get incredibly meticulous and obsessive with web design, and I just don’t have the time for that right now. Actually, I do have the time, just not the will.

WordPress themes are a joy to use. Adding, changing, and modifying themes is such a breeze. But while WordPress theme management might be designed brilliantly, the user uploaded themes aren’t always, and this one is a good example of that.

I didn’t notice until I just tried to edit the sidebar, but they used nested tables in the layout. I feel dirty all over for using this now. I feel like I’m harbouring a terrorist, clubbing seals to death, or buying a Paris Hilton CD. The design isn’t Widget Ready either, so editing the sidebar is a pain. I’ll start looking for another theme soon.

If you mosey over to the sidebar, you’ll find I’ve added contact information and links to my various profiles around this here Internet. Feel free to add me as a friend/contact/followee on any of those applications.

Lastly, I’ve started using Postalicious to post periodic shared links here. I initially set it up to post my shared links from Google Reader, but that wasn’t working how I wanted, so I switched to using del.icio.us. I’m going to try it out for a while, and see how it goes.

And yes, I realise that coffee cup has an eye. And yes, it is staring into your very soul.

This here’s my new weblog. It may be located on the same domain as my old weblog, and it may have the same name as my old weblog, but we’re going to pretend it’s new.

What old weblog, you ask? For the last ten years or so, I’ve had something on the web. It started with Geocities pages, complete with animated gifs and auto-play embedded midi files, and eventually progressed into a weblog on this very domain. Said weblog was going strong (well, it was going) up until September 2006. At that point I decided, as many webloggers do, to take a hiatus. And as many webloggers on hiatuses do, I never came back.

I originally took the hiatus because I was taking on a very heavy course load in university. Instead of slowing down the posting, I decided to just forget about it and focus on school. After the semester ended, I abandoned the weblog to devote the time I would normally spend on it into writing a novel that would indirectly solve all of the world’s problems with its cutting wit and embracing soul.

The Iraq War hasn’t ended, the Aids epidemic in Africa is still thriving, and people are starving around the world, so it’s obvious my book hasn’t yet been published. In fact, since discarding the weblog, I haven’t really written anything at all. It’s easy to fall from the habit of writing when you aren’t sitting down and typing something every day.

I don’t have a road map for where I’m going with this. I know the first thing they teach you in Weblogging 101 is to focus on a topic, but I have too sketchy a mind to pull off something like that. I’ll be focusing on delving deeper into my interests and personal projects, but there will most likely be an eclectic array of topics covered here.

As you may have noticed, I’m using a WordPress theme. It kills me to use a design I didn’t create myself, but I don’t have enough time to work on a new one, and I wanted to get on with it. I will eventually design my own, but this will work just fine until then.

So, I guess this weblog is officially open for business. Now where’s that champagne?

It is not widely recorded, but it is rumoured to have happened before the creation of some of the world’s most treasured accomplishments. This phenomenon, which many historians refer to as The Calling, is best described as a preemptive beckoning. People, and even animals, become drawn to an area like moths to a flame. They feel an irrational impulse to accumulate and wait, yet they don’t know what they wait for or why. Many wonder if it’s this energy that prompts leaders to choose a certain area for building great monuments of if fate is drawing people to the potential of what will soon stand there.

Either way, it seems this strange force is once again at work, right in this very spot. Soon, in place of this generic WordPress template, there shall stand a mighty weblog. A weblog admired and cherished in lands near and far.

A design must first be created before the weblogging can begin. My obsessive nature restricts the use of pre-made templates, so I need to find some time to dress up this domain. This will happen soon. In the meantime, sit back, grab a feed, and enjoy yourself.