• I’m Back

    The other day I ended up down a rabbit hole reading old blogs and tweets on the Wayback Machine. I miss the good ol’ blogging days. Even Twitter was so much better way back then.

    So I’m going to try to blogging more. After I brushed off my blog I noticed it got hacked with some spam link injections. I thought it was good with auto updates on, but I guess not. I cleaned house. I removed all the plugins I could. I got a new simple and clean theme. There will be no more auto posts from Twitter or Instagram. My blog will just be me blabbing on. That’s what I miss, so that’s what I’ll do.

    Now everything on the internet is so political and everybody is overreacting to everything. Growing up we were taught that it was good to read the news and know what’s going on, but that was before this 24 hour news cycle we got now. Now the news just flows to you. We are all over consuming it. I’m trying to read less of it. It’s ok to not know everything that’s going on. 99% of it probably doesn’t affect you anyway. 

    So I’m just going to do some frivolous blogging to get my mind off of the horrible things happening in the world. If you want to too that would be great. I’d love to read what you have to say.

  • Blog about blogging

    So today I noticed I received a new comment on my blog. I almost forgot that that was even a thing. I’ve never been popular enough to get too many comments, but I use to comment on a lot of blogs. It’s been years since I’ve commented on a blog. I think I’m going to change that this year. The problem is nobody blogs anymore.

    I’ve Said it before, but I really miss all the blogs I use to read. After reading someone’s blog for years, I really feel like I know them. They feel like real friends that I know a lot about, but might not even know their real name. Is that crazy?

    Of the 100s of blogs I’m still subscribed to, only a handful still blog. I feel like I’ve lost a lot of friends despite following a lot of them on Twitter. Twitter just isn’t the same.

    I’ve thought about shutting my blog down, but then where would I rant? Where would I share the Internet links that I find interesting? The though of shutting down my blog makes me want to blog even more. I don’t look at my stats, I have no idea if anybody reads this, and I don’t care. I do it for me.

    So if your still reading, thanks? I guess? And go post something on your blog, even if it’s just a picture of your breakfast.

  • Who blogs anyway?

    So for the last couple of months I’ve seriously thought about shutting my blog down. Who still blogs nowadays anyway? Does anybody still read blogs?

    Then I though, fuck it. Why quit? I’ve never really blogged for my readers. Hell, I don’t even know if I even have readers. I’ve never really cared about that shit. Popularity has never meant anything to me. I blog because I like to share. So instead of shutting this blog down, I’m going to start doing more of it. I’m going to start sharing more interesting things I find on the interwebs, and maybe more of my life.

    I’m still subscribed to hundreds of blogs in my feed reader, but sadly most of them are dead. Many of the bloggers felt like friends to me I’ve been reading them for so long. A few I’ve managed to find on Twitter, but most I will never hear from again. I’m not going to go out like that. I’ve been blogging more or less for 14 years, and I’m going to keep going. Maybe someday I’ll hang it up, but until then my blog will continue to evolve into whatever the hell I want it to be.

  • Blogcation

    So I was planning on taking the month of August off from my blog. I just wasn’t feeling it much. I was even debating quitting it. I mean who blogs anymore? My feed reader use to be 80% bloggers, now it’s like 2%. But I can’t quit. WordPress 3.6 came out, and I started to play around with it. I decided it was time to clean up my blog. I’m back to a default WordPress theme, and am cleaning up my plugins. I’m just getting back to the basics, so pardon the dust. *insert early 90s animated gif here

  • Rethinking my blog

    So I had a little blog break for a couple of weeks. I took a quick trip to San Francisco and saw a Niners game. I had a great time, but didn’t see nearly enough of the city. I will have to go back.

    While I was gone I rethough about my blog. I thought about giving it up, but I like to share things too much. I’m sure I would miss it. I’ve tried to quit in the past, and you know how well that works.

    I’ve decided to turn my blog almost into a Tumblr like site. Instead of just going to Tumblr and not having control of my content, I rolled my own. My linkblog will now be rolled into my blog as regular posts. At first I thought it would be too much, but I usually only share a few links a day.

    As usually, my blog is a work in progress and I do it mostly for my enjoyment. I hope you like it. If not, it is what it is.

  • Social Media Not Quite Worthless

    So over the weekend Leo Laporte noticed his Google Buzz feed wasn’t feeding into Twitter for almost the whole month, and no one noticed. He was shocked, but I’m not really surprised. My Twitter stream goes by pretty fast. I probably only read 50% of the tweets. I wish I could read them all, but that’s just not possible. If someone dropped off the face of the Earth, I would have a hard time to tell from my Twitter stream.

    He came to the conclusion that if nobody missed him, why is he even there? He felt like he was wasting his time feeding content into Twitter, when he should have been feeding it to his blog, at least he would have something to show for it.

    I agree with him on that. So many bloggers have quit blogging because of Twitter. A lot of blogs that I used to read almost daily, now are hardly ever updated. People spend all day Tweeting and at the end of the day have nothing to show for it. If they would put it on their blog, send all the TwitPics to their blog, after a while they would have a nice record of their life if nothing else.

    Some people think RSS is dead. I live and die by RSS. If you blog something I will read it thanks to RSS. If you tweet it, there is probably only a 50% chance that I will read it.

    Now don’t get me wrong, I don’t think Twitter is totally worthless. It’s great for short little comments. It’s great to communicate with while watching tv. It’s great for telling everybody what you had for breakfast. But don’t forget about you blog.

    If I find something I want to share, I might tweet about it, but it’s for sure going on my blog first. Some people hate it when people tweet about blog updates. I do it, and I don’t care. My blog is mine. I own it. At the end of the day this is what’s important. I couldn’t really care less about Twitter. It’s fun, and I will continue to use it as long as it stays fun, but once Twitter goes the way of MySpace, you will still find me here.

  • New Blog Design

    As you can tell I tweaked my blog design a little.  I like clean and simple designs, so that’s what I got again.  I will no longer be posting my sometimes daily list of links I find interesting.  If they annoyed you, well there are done.  If you liked them, they will be over there —> in my sidebar.  Now they have their very own RSS feed and will be updated as I add stuff rather than once a day. 

    The thing I like best about blogging is sharing stuff I find cool or interesting on the net.  Sometimes they are blog worthy and I blog about them, but many times a link is sufficient.

    Like always I will be tweaking the site a bit, but liked it good enough to make the changes tonight.

  • Moving Link Blog

    For quite a while I have had this blog, and a link blog. I am basically addicted to the internet. I like to share cool things I find. I was using Tumblr for my link blog. It would automatically post things that I share on different services. It was so easy that I have been tempted to move my whole blog over there or to Posterous, another nice site. I just don’t feel comfortable switching to someone else’s system though, plus I love WordPress so much. So I found a better way to combine my blog with my link blog. I have moved my link blog to Posterous. Posterous has a nice feature that will post my posts over there onto my blog. If it all works out, my links will get posted to my blog also. So instead of getting a couple posts a week from me, you will be getting a couple a day. Hope you like the changes, and if not I don’t care. It’s MY blog. haha.

  • Disqus Comments

    I have been using Disqus for my comments on my comic blog at lolmace.com (which I really need to start updating again). Disqus has a lot of cool features including video commenting using Seesmic. I have been debating wether or not to switch my blog comments to Disqus. Today I switched them to Disqus. What changed my mind was the ability to export comments, so if I want to quit using Disqus, I can export my comments out of their system. Soon I will be able to import all my past comments into the Disqus system. Now if only people commented on my blog.

  • Twitter Updates off Main Page

    So I was getting a little sick of all the “Twitter Update” posts clogging up my blog. They are still coming in, but they will no longer be on the front page. Thanks to Becky for pointing me in the right direction. It was simple. I just had to put this code into my home.php file:



    You just have to change the number to whatever category you want skipping the main page. Now if you care about my Twitter updates you can check them out over there —->, and if you don’t care you won’t see them.