Crumping towards Bethlehem
So.
A couple of months ago I came across a blog entry “kill your blog“. I can’t remember the details as I don’t think I ever read the entry - but I was impressed by the title enough to take matters into my own hands. Never thought it would struggle so much, pathetic little thing as it was, a mercy killing in anyone’s moral code.
We’re following a sad tale about a baby whale that’s not looking too promising. Short of a miracle (cue: God, you’re on) it looks like the little fella will fade away. It’s great that so many people were keen to try and help - however futile - but I’ve got a funny feeling we’re going to see more of this. Whether they’re abandoned or orphaned, maybe we’ve just got to figure out how to look after these little buggers.
On a lighter note, some technical changes. Where’s the Ruby? Where’s the Lego?
First off, there’s no more Ruby under the hood of this blog. No complaints about Typo, but the hosting company I use has pretty good support for WordPress. Call it laziness - two click to update WordPress on Dreamhost - but I’d rather think of it as keeping things simple, getting away from finding solutions to problems that have already been solved.
I’m still in love with Ruby. I’ve loved a few languages over the years, Pascal and 6502 assembler standing out as my first fumbling teenage romances. But Ruby is special - I keep finding new things that delight me. And I know I know stuff all. So it feels like it’s going to take us a while to get to know each other. I feel like we’re just sort of getting reacquainted. I’ve been a bit distracted of late and not really on my code, but I’ve made some changes to balance things out. Maybe I might blag that about later.
In the spirit of not solving already solved problems, I’ve killed off pretty much all the shitty little pointless projects I started on the other side of 40 (what, you couldn’t smell the ‘midlife crisis’ a mile off?). There were some good ideas that I’ll look at again sometime, but acts_as_static_content wasn’t one of them.
Ditto for Lego. Lot’s of little projects, little finished. We’ve had fun o’ plenty lately getting old Spybots up and running, some neat-o Technics stuff. Again, if it’s blagworthy I’ll chuck it up.
If I told you how embarrassed I was by my old blog we’d end up with one of those painful, entirely self-referential “meta blogs”. Do they still exist? I don’t keep up with how it all works any more. What’s that sonny.. I can’t hear you over my iPod.
So. Ruby, Rails, Lego, balance, work. Other stuff as we go along.
We good?