Ah, two years and counting! It feels good, yet, at the same time, it’s depressing to see how I used to write. Anyway, I created this blog two years ago to the day, a few days after I left Middletown for good. The fact of the matter was this: when you are in limbo, you need a place to spew your mind. As such, the blog (which used to be called the Clog, up until February 2008) was that place. In the past year, I believe that both my posts, as well as general attitude, have changed. Don’t worry, often change is a good thing, other times it’s not.
In order to celebrate the birthday of the blog, I planned to have a new theme developed for WordPress to launch today. Unfortunately, I gave up on that a few minutes after I started, so we will all have to deal with this public, albeit modified, theme. Personally, I like it, and it’s been growing on me ever since I installed it a few weeks back. Now, as I may have possibly hinted at a few posts back, I do plan on publishing a retrospect of the past two years sometime before the end of this month (I know, a week isn’t that long of a time to write retrospect, especially of two years, but I will do my best). I will also be discussing what’s going on with my own personal life, my tech life (including some new Game Maker news/rumors/etc. as well as current and future projects), and basically anything else that comes to mind.
Looking back, excluding the three months that I failed to post on here, my posting frequency has been in quite a state of flux, but I think I am starting to settle into the two or three posts a week spectrum. Yes, it is not a lot, but at the same time, it’s all the writing I can muster in my free time during the week. Even though summer is upon us (well, at least here), personal and other commitments limit the amount of time I can dedicate to posting on here, as well as working on my own personal web projects. That being said, I will do my best to post as much “unexpected” content (things that are not released on a time schedule, unlike the Week in Review) as I can come up with, including my own comments on various news articles and events, personal opinion on various happenings, and the like.
All in all, I really do feel that the blog has done completed its purpose gracefully; it served as the whiteboard and psychiatrist of my mind, in a sense. I could describe random projects or events without having to fear about who read it. Well, in a way, there is always a fear about who reads your works, especially when they are about anything, but that is one of the consequences of free speech, I guess. But, despite the blog/clog completing its original, defined purpose, it is far from dead: like everything old, or at least appearing so, we can repurpose and redefine our goals, ambitions, and the products of them. As such, the blog is not going anywhere, not for a long, long time.
Connor Wilkins