Hi, I’m DB. You may know me as the guy who used to post on this blog. Well, I still do, just not as often. You see, I have been trying to alter my life to the extent that I can get up in the morning without first fighting a massive internal battle against the forces of sleeping in, and start work without wishing I was still home in bed, a headache just one bright light away.

It has been quite successful, and my archives page shows a large part of the reason why. Simply put, I don’t spend as much time writing anymore. I check my RSS feeds and my email, and I go to bed. It’s a win, but not for my blog. Which is kindof a loss. I was going to write a post about how I don’t get time to write enough posts anymore, but, well, I haven’t found the time to write it. Which is a real kick in the teeth, actually. Thanks, universe.

Even when I find time to write I rarely find time to finish. One of my friends once asked me why it was so hard to keep the post rate up (given I was only doing about one per week). He figured, it only takes about 20 minutes to write a post, right? Well, not for me. This is how much I can do in 20 minutes. My typical blog post – such as there is, but one with some body to it and maybe a few links and/or pictures – takes perhaps 4 hours. Many of them are months in the planning, involve 30 minutes trying to find that one link I saw in 2003 that would be really appropriate right now, and 10 minutes deciding if that fourth joke in paragraph three is just pushing it a bit too far. Some of this time could be put down to perfectionism, but frankly, I’m not here to write shit. The idea is to achieve something. Anyway, it’s bloody hard work, very draining, and very rewarding. I would highly recommend it, but I suppose that’s hypocritical given the current situation.

One of the side effects of this is that I have, amongst the apparent 23,000 word count of my toblog scratch file, a fast-building list of really good links that I should totally show to others it’ll be awesome! Well, this problem I can fix. I have long been considering some kind of Daring Fireball-esque link feed, and its time has come. Introducing Click Here! Also available on the front page.

Incidentally, I do still plan to post. But I have adjusted my goals. Once a fortnight. For sure. Maybe. In between, I’ll be blogging vicariously through my links. See you there.