Archive for March 22nd, 2008

450 days

Grandad March 22nd, 2008

One or two of you may have noticed that I didn’t write anything yesterday.

I sat down yesterday morning, and the thought crossed my mind that I was deliberately looking around for something to say.  I realised then that I was posting for the sake of posting.  That is not good.  I looked back and realised that I had posted on 450 or so consecutive days.  Did I really have something of importance to say on each of those occasions?

I had nothing to say yesterday, so I didn’t say it.

I am slightly changing my blogging technique.  If I have something to say, I’ll say it.  If I haven’t, then I won’t.

Also I have been commenting on comments as soon as they arrive.  This must give the impression that I am sitting here frantically waiting for someone to write something, which would be a bit sad.

I work on the Interweb.  I sit here with the laptop connected to the Interweb while I work, and as such I am notified of every mail that comes in.  I have changed that.  Frankly I was finding my train of thought was being interrupted by mails.  I have shut the mail up, and will only check mails from time to time.  Blogging is not my top priority in life [sorry!].

It’s a pity really that I decided this yesterday, as my previous post caused a few ripples.  Most of you got the point I was trying to make, but some didn’t and accused me of racial hatred which is surprising.  But then little surprises me any more.  Another person expressed amazement that I didn’t delete her response [she mentioned it on another blog].  I have deleted comments in the past - I have deleted spam.  I have deleted messages that were irrelevant and blatantly so.  I also deleted a small block of comments when two commentors [commentators?] became very abusive towards each other.  I have never deleted a dissenting comment.  I have allowed comments even if I completely disagreed with them.  I was accused in the past in a hate mail of deleting any comment that disagreed with my point of view.  That amused me.

So I am not changing my policies because of any hate mail I have received.  I am not changing them because of the furore my Thursday post may have caused.

I am changing them because of priorities.

See you tomorrow.

Maybe.