Double Usefulness is most definitely a PC and not a Mac. Like the unsettling world of Windows, just when you think you've got some stability and consistency everything freezes for an indeterminate period before completely rebooting once again.
Of course I could blame my infrequent blogging on a whole host of factors.
I'd love to claim to be staunchly shy of people reading what I write and thus intentionally shed any regular followers of this blog by feeding and famishing them in equal measure. But that's not true.
I'd love to say I'm too busy to keep a regular blog going, but then again people who have equally (and more) hectic schedules than my own manage to blog with MacBook like dependability.
I'd love to say that I've dried up on ideas, but I regularly formulate blog post ideas only to consign them to the recycling bin behind my eyes.
I'd love to say (in my best American accent, replete with the trending tones of HRT) that blogging is so last year (?), but I find that thoughts and ideas which I post to Twitter and Facebook are only ever half-formed at best. In any case, posting things which are only related, or chiefly related to Christianity on that forum can easily make one sound as though communicating piety is your chief concern.
So why the Blue Screen blog? Frankly, of all the disciplines required for Christian living, the blog is often the first to go. Taking time to write a brief article or book review on top of other responsbilities can seem like a little too much at times - and that boils down in the end to laziness or lack of application. If I believe in writing my blog I should persist in writing my blog.
Confession over - resolution time! I'm going to restart Double Usefulness yet again (cue the opening sound theme from Windows), and this time I'm going to make every effort not to let it slide. Call this Double Usefulness 7 if you like, you know the one that comes after Vista and largely behaves as it ought to.
I'll try not to blue screen again, and for those of you who have faithfully followed what I write here, please watch this space - I'll start off with a goal of two posts per week and see where it goes from here.
Of course I could blame my infrequent blogging on a whole host of factors.
I'd love to claim to be staunchly shy of people reading what I write and thus intentionally shed any regular followers of this blog by feeding and famishing them in equal measure. But that's not true.
I'd love to say I'm too busy to keep a regular blog going, but then again people who have equally (and more) hectic schedules than my own manage to blog with MacBook like dependability.
I'd love to say that I've dried up on ideas, but I regularly formulate blog post ideas only to consign them to the recycling bin behind my eyes.
I'd love to say (in my best American accent, replete with the trending tones of HRT) that blogging is so last year (?), but I find that thoughts and ideas which I post to Twitter and Facebook are only ever half-formed at best. In any case, posting things which are only related, or chiefly related to Christianity on that forum can easily make one sound as though communicating piety is your chief concern.
So why the Blue Screen blog? Frankly, of all the disciplines required for Christian living, the blog is often the first to go. Taking time to write a brief article or book review on top of other responsbilities can seem like a little too much at times - and that boils down in the end to laziness or lack of application. If I believe in writing my blog I should persist in writing my blog.
Confession over - resolution time! I'm going to restart Double Usefulness yet again (cue the opening sound theme from Windows), and this time I'm going to make every effort not to let it slide. Call this Double Usefulness 7 if you like, you know the one that comes after Vista and largely behaves as it ought to.
I'll try not to blue screen again, and for those of you who have faithfully followed what I write here, please watch this space - I'll start off with a goal of two posts per week and see where it goes from here.
2 comments:
It all went wrong when those egits in front of you couldn't sit still at the Van the Man concert. It seemed to flip a switch in you :)
Looking forward to the relaunch. Welcome to DU.7 !
Missed your input in recent times - Abraham Lincoln once said, "I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause."
Could be applied to blogging I think.
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