So.. As for getting off the wayside. My blog up to this point has been unsatisfying to me and likely to any readers. There’s no content, but apparently a number of YouTube clips for Neil Young and Ted Leo. So I am banishing such minor content from the blog, instead I’m going to funnel my chitter chatter into Twitter - see the handy sidebar widget. I also posted links, those are now banished as well - with an exception. I use Firefox everywhere I go, so I’ve installed the delicious extension and religiously use it for all my bookmarking. So instead of posting links, I’m going to post daily summaries of the links I post to delicious. The idea is to centralize around the blog, integrate it into my day-to-day… which I’ve sadly failed to do in the past. Blog content from this point forward should be semi-substantial tutorials or thoughtful reflections. My long running complaint about blogs has been those that lack content and offer only white noise (or worse) to the community. Somehow I’ve become what I hate. So consider this a manifesto of sorts. It’s a brave new world of blogging!

Finally.. I need to be less of a perfectionist - and just write. It’s why I’m slow writing papers… emails… anything. I obsess. So I’m going to endeavour to loosening my verbal bowels a little… maybe a little diarrhea isn’t so bad.