Two Slashes

A little over a year ago, I rang in 2010 with the bold claim that I was going to be blogging more…and then fell off the face of the earth entirely. This blog has sat here since that day, collecting both (e-)dust and a spam queue large enough to feed starving people in Africa for a similar duration (assuming it was the meat product and not just a few rows in a database).

I guarantee that it will be hard to believe after a year of inactivity, but I did have a lot of posts sitting in the pipeline waiting to be reviewed, edited, and posted. Heck, most of them are still sitting in either my drafts queue or a folder in my Dropbox, probably never to see the light of day.

The past year has definitely been eventful, even if I haven’t been documenting most of it for the world at large (outside of Twitter, that is). I’ve had a netbook stolen, celebrated a birthday, taken a few exams, and generally screwed around. Oh, and I might have had the tenacity to start a private URL shortener, too.

The notion of getting back to blogging has been sitting at the back of my head for some time, and recently I’ve felt a few nudges from all corners of the Internet to come back, clean things up, and return to posting my own brand of technological babbling and trickery. Of course, we’ll see whether that happens, but I have a good feeling about this time…

So, if you’ve held on to my RSS feed in hopes of seeing something sooner or later, thanks for sticking around. If you’re just joining the party, I apologize for the mess, but I hope you can hang around a few minutes and let me liven things up a bit.

Nope, I didn’t get crickets for Christmas. That’s probably what anyone who actually bothered to visit my blog in the past few months has thought they were hearing, though.

It’s not for lack of trying to fix that, either.  There are quite a few posts that never made it past the draft stage (I’m a picky writer and even more obnoxious when it comes to actually sharing things, but you probably already knew that).

However, despite the dry spell of posts, I’m happy to announce that my daily traffic actually went up.  That’s right, up.  Apparently I’m still something of an important Google search result when it comes to disabling the “taskbar” on Facebook (is there really a better name for it) or people who want to commit suicide (as a result of this April Fool’s post) or even “preteen porn” (I can smell even more unwanted traffic now for mentioning it, but the picture of my watch from this post seems to be particularly popular as of late).

(Oh, and FireStats reports that there are approximately fifty people still requesting new items from my RSS feed once in a while regularly.  Hello to all of you.)

As usual, I’m not going to make any empty promises, or, considering the date, “resolve” to become a better, more regular blogger.  Whatever happens will happen, and it’s up to my schedule and observations to enable me to come up with something I feel passionate enough to post about.  I’m going to do my best to become active once again, but I’m not going to force my hand.  This site isn’t going anywhere, even if I don’t update it for three months at a time.  (The domain itself is a gold mine, right?)  Maybe the random timing is what made it fun for everyone in the first place…

Even so, I’ve regurgitated a few post ideas into Evernote and I’m starting to piece them back into my usual long-winded explorations of whatever catches my interest.  Like the rest of my draft library, they may never see the light of day…but you can stick around and see if they do.  (And in the meantime, I should look into archiving them somewhere.)

Welcome to 2010.  Have a leftover candy cane (they’re still good), sit back, and let’s hope this new year brings plenty of annoyances to write about.