Blog Gardening (Idle Words)#

02.15.2009

This has always been a rather passive-aggressive website, technologically speaking. You could read recent things, and you could read certain older things, but God help you if you wanted to poke around in the archives. The site was assembled by a script I wrote one night after two bottles of wine in 2002, and was afraid to ever look at again, let alone touch.

This past week I finally decided to do some long-overdue blog gardening, and now the site should be navigable back to its origins in the summer of 2002. It might even grow to have exciting features like a comments area, or actual new writing.

There are two joys that come with doing this kind of cleanup. The first is the discovery that, although writing regularly for seven years may not make you a good writer, it will certainly make you a less terrible writer than when you started. The second is the ability to go Orwell on the past.

As a form of moral penance, however, I have preserved the fact that my very first article on this site was about attending a Renaissance Faire.

Without droning on about the gears and levers that now drive this website, I would like to ask readers to email me if some link that used to work is now broken, or if something that works now would be better off being broken again.