Monday, Jan. 15, 2001 - 10:21 am
Okay, so I've somewhat recovered from my annoyance about the lost post. I also feel compelled to quote from Greg Knauss' interview in Wetlog. It's exactly how I ended up here on the web and how I feel about it as an expressive tool . . . Except my nerd Dad sprung for a Commodore 464.
"I don't know that I have a medium, or that I chose it. I happen to sit at a Net-connected computer for, gad, ten or twelve hours a day so anything that gets burped up goes on-line. It's pure happenstance that "on-line" means "publicly distributed." If I worked at a drill press, I expect I'd have a room full of things with holes drilled in them. If I worked as a house painter, I know I wouldn't be able to resist writing messages that would slowly bleed through the overcoat. If I worked at Kinkos, I'd be buried in bad collages and blurry images of my ass. This Web nonsense is all just a happy accident, a combination of parents who popped for an Atari 400 over a decade and a half ago, a first job that didn't give me enough to do and stumbling across the xmosaic 2.0 announcement on USENET.
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I just spent an hour writing an insightful entry about the nature of weblogs and diary writing. Of course, it got lost somewhere in the jumble and now it is no more. I guess I should just embrace the medium, right? Damn! Just read what Neale has to say. I'd probably agree with him anyway. Grump, grump, grump! It was a damn good post.
