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Looking back…

Jun 02 2009

When browsing around other people’s blogs today, I stumbled across a post written by someone looking back over their blog from the time the started blogging. According to the post, when she first started blogging someone told her that you only start blogging well and properly after about 2 years of doing it; everything before that is a bit of a trial and not worth much. So I had a look back over my blog (started in March 2006) to see if this was true of mine – and I suspect that it was!

In 2006, I mainly blogged about nothing at all – what I had for lunch, the courses I was taking at college, any small achievements in my own programming and deisgn projects that I’d made. I complained a lot, and also moaned a lot that I needed to think of a new design for my blog. At that time I was using Blogger, and one of the built in templates provided by Google. During the year I attended Spring Harvest, co-founded a Web design and development blog, complained I was bored, more than once, moved the blog to Textpattern, and yet again to WordPress, began life at University, joined the Big Band, attended a Fusion Student Conference and saw various movies at the cinema. It was a fairly busy year – but most of the blog posts were pretty badly written and of no interest to anybody (though what is to say that this post is? Perhaps nothing has changed!). I did post a couple of more detailed posts, mainly related to Christianity – what happened to them? Perhaps I need to get back into it!

2007 saw less blogs than my first year, but they were still of the same pretty poor quality! I did write another Christianity-related post, but the blog pretty much continued more like a diary. My blow-up sofa was popped, I complained (yet again) about being bored, finished my first University exams, saw more movies, found a house for our second year of university, moved into said house, helped out at the Party in the Square, went to the Goodwood Festival of Speed, changed the site design and moved it to Expression Engine, and made a giant King of Diamonds for a friend.

There were even less blogs in 2008. I got the job at Cisco, changed the blog design yet again, and started trying to take a photo a day for a year. That soon fizzled out after about a month. My blogging started to showcase graphic design that I liked, and I moved into our house for my second year of University. This year featured one long, deep blog post, and I visited Alton Towers with the people from Cisco. This was the time of year that Annie and I got together, and we booked our holiday to New York. I started at Cisco, and went with them to Ascot, which was a first. If I saw many movies, I didn’t blog about them as much as I used to, and I started taking photos with my new digital SLR. I can’t believe that it wasn’t actually that long ago – it all feels like years ago.

So far this year, I’ve blogged a lot less than previous years. Perhaps I’m losing interest in it? Although I still enjoy it. Or maybe I’m more hesitant about hitting the Publish button on a post that’s pretty useless.

If only I had more interesting stuff to say.