Why, Hello There World

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?

2007
07/04
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No Worm For The Early Bird

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.

2007
06/28
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