Consequence

Two weekends ago, I sat down and I started archiving news posts from previous versions of TE. I was excited about WordPress and how it would make everything I’ve written look all neat and samey. Back in the day I thought it was neat to make every article stand out visually (for better or for worse…), but at this point I feel like the streamlined look is where it’s at.

I miss the creativity and colour of the old ways, but let’s face it: that made it look like it was done by a twelve-year-old, and I was totally sixteen when I started. Huge difference there.

Anyway, I’m looking through my archives for 2003 alone, and dreading how long it’s going to take to stick all that garbage in here. I know I could cut out the hundreds of stupid little posts saying that I fixed a typo or that I was maybe considering thinking about typing an article, but this is supposed to be a definitive work. And to that extent, I feel it must be complete.

And so bitch about the amount of work it’s going to take, I shall.

I suppose when I started, I was just thinking about how sparse 2008-2010 were as far as bloggeties go. It may have cooled off even earlier, I don’t really remember. I just know that I consistently felt bad that I was neglecting my $70-a-year webspace.

It’s just… when I look at all of those tiny posts that really don’t have anything to say, I wonder why. I considered posting all the updates of a month (for the Page of Death years) in a single post, but decided against it because “how bad could it be?” Once I get past the point where the updates are a single sentence, it probably won’t feel quite as much like a waste of time. That gets halfway into 2004 though, so I’ve got about a year and a half of tiny, worthless posts to re-post.

On the other hand, I feel like I’m really going to enjoy the bulk of the rest of it. Maybe my writing isn’t great, but at least I’ll get that wonderful nostalgic feeling. I fairly consistenly rummaging through old posts for old links or other stuff, so I’m kinda looking forward to going through it all again. It’s really the perfect excuse to read my entire archive without it feeling like a huge waste of time.

And yeah, that’s about all I need to complain about for today. Yeah, this post is mostly as useless as all those one-sentence ones I’m complaining about, but if a personal blog isn’t for whining about stupid things, what is it for?