This site appeared on my referrer log. No mention in it to my site, though. The last entry said she was moving. Where to? She didn’t specify.
Now, all it shows is a goodbye note. Kinda sad, it was the first interesting referrer appearing in the log.
Was the hit a worm? an spider? an experiment? I guess I’ll never know.
Not that it really bothers me, anyway…
I’ve been seeing the last few days and on and off discussion about blogging becoming mainstream. It is a shame that it’d all go to happen the same moment I reenter the blogging scene. Now, it could loose the fun factor.
So what?
For the record, I was blogging more than a year ago (not much in the Blog timespan, yeah. And it took me time to realize that this is what I wanted to do, I had been considering it way before that but I didn’t think it was the format that best suited me.) and I left it after 2 months or so (other things were always in the middle, too). But I think this time is different. First, I am doing it in English. I’d think it would’nt make much of a difference, but it seems my target audience is not that of my country. As a developer, I find myself reading developer blogs more often that not. I follow interesting –and entertaining– discussions, and I even take part on some of them. Actually, I think this time I do have an audience, as opposed to before. After just a few days of beginning this new experience, I’ve already been linked by one of the people whose weblog I follow. Granted, I was responding to him and he would’nt have know about me if it weren’t for his referrer log as well, but it goes to show that I have interesting things to say, if only to some people.
After re-reading Dave Winer’s How to Start a Weblog, I’ll think I’ll begin to weave Syntactic Saccharose deeper in to the Blog Loom (or shoud I say patchwork?). My intention was to analyze and comment technology and biotech news while they were a novelty, or tingled my fancy, if only to show that I knew about them (that I was on the loop ;) before certain self-proclaimed gurus. Already I have received positive feedback. I think I’m on the right track, and I haven’t even started to post the things that have been on the back of my mind for a few weeks now.
I feel empowered now. I feel enabled. I’m realizing some part of the web-culture that I didn’t enjoy since the times when I first got online at the U. –back in the lynx days–. Even as a web developer, I had not enjoyed so much the feeling that I was contributing, that I was shaping the web since those good old days.
So, be prepared. I might not have anything worthy to say again, but I sure will try to tell it to you anyway. If you are not interested, don’t listen. You don’t have the time to read useless rants, I don’t have the time to accommodate to your tastes; better search for an interesting site somewhere else ;) you deserve it, as I do. I don’t care if you think I am a late bandwagon joiner. I don’t care if it is mainstream now. Email is mainstream too, and that won’t stop me from using it. This has allowed me to use pre-made tools instead of creating (or adapting) my own, and concentrate on the things I have to say.
Back to work now…