Twitter

I must admit I was quite sceptical about Twitter, which is the main reason it took me so long to get an account; but now that I've been tweeting for some time, I must say I really like it. In many ways it is more of a revolution in communication than the blog was. A blog post often contains a kernel of some substance which the author must have thought about for a while, and you can usually tell that a lot of consideration has gone into crafting the post, wording it just so, getting the right information across in the right way and so on. Even if the author didn't have a blog, whatever seed of thought gave rise to the post would most likely have taken root somewhere else, and somehow worked its way out of its creators mind - be it in written text, in conversation or expressed more abstractly. In short, what people express in blogs they would have said regardless of blog ownership. Not so with Twitter. A typical tweet contains only a throwaway remark the author would probably never have bothered to express in any more coherent form - and that means Twitter is a repository of all those thought that would otherwise have vanished into the aether. A rather fascinating thought, I think... Perhaps I should tweet it.

Also, my Twitter page is twitter.com/Cithoge. Come read my incoherent thoughts ;)

Worst Cold Ever!

I have just triumphantly emerged from my own Cold War (see what I did there?), and I have to say, that was probably the worst cold I have ever had. I spent a whole week at home; alternating between sleeping and dozing in front of the telly. Not a bad way to spend a week, really; apart from the agonising headaches and muscle pains, of course. Anyway, I'm back on my feet now, and happily blogging away. I think there's a certain inertia involved in blogging - once you get going, it's hard to stop; but if you do - if you take too long a break between posts, you'll never get going again. So this post may not look much to the world, but it's my way of getting blogging momentum going again. Terminal blogging velocity - here we go!