{"id":446,"date":"2011-10-06T18:16:11","date_gmt":"2011-10-06T23:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=446"},"modified":"2011-10-04T16:58:18","modified_gmt":"2011-10-04T21:58:18","slug":"consequence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=446","title":{"rendered":"Consequence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;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&#8230;), but at this point I feel like the streamlined look is where it&#8217;s at.<\/p>\n<p>I miss the creativity and colour of the old ways, but let&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I&#8217;m looking through my archives for 2003 alone, and dreading how long it&#8217;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 <strong>definitive<\/strong> work. And to that extent, I feel it must be complete.<\/p>\n<p>And so bitch about the amount of work it&#8217;s going to take, I shall.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;t really remember. I just know that I consistently felt bad that I was neglecting my $70-a-year webspace.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s just&#8230; when I look at all of those tiny posts that really don&#8217;t have anything to say, I wonder why. I considered posting all the updates\u00a0of a month (for the Page of Death years) in a single post, but decided against it because &#8220;how bad could it be?&#8221; Once I get past the point where the updates are a single sentence, it probably won&#8217;t feel quite as much like a waste of time. That gets halfway into 2004 though, so I&#8217;ve got about a year and a half of tiny, worthless posts to re-post.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, I feel like I&#8217;m really going to enjoy the bulk of the rest of it. Maybe my writing isn&#8217;t great, but at least I&#8217;ll get that wonderful nostalgic feeling. I fairly consistenly rummaging through old posts for old links or other stuff, so I&#8217;m kinda looking forward to going through it all again. It&#8217;s really the perfect excuse to read my entire archive without it\u00a0feeling like\u00a0a huge waste of time.<\/p>\n<p>And yeah, that&#8217;s about all I need to complain about for today. Yeah, this post is mostly as useless as all those one-sentence ones I&#8217;m complaining about, but if a personal blog isn&#8217;t for whining about stupid things, what <em>is<\/em> it for?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;ve written look all neat and samey. 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