The Diary Of A Mad Man

You know, It’s funny… A while back I made a decision. One that actually I still think was good for certain reasons but ever since making it – and implementing it – I’ve sort of regretted it.

Actually, that’s a lie… I’ve really regretted it.

But, not in the way you might think. I’ve actually enjoyed a bit of time to myself and living life rather than writing about it. More than that; I’ve managed to sort myself out completely, grow up and have hopefully improved not only my writing style – but the content too.

A few months ago (September 2009), I made the decision to delete everything from this very blog.

Everything.

Posts, comments and media all ended up in the virtual recycling bin of my server and I left myself with nothing – apart from the odd backup here and there.

So what prompted it?… Well actually, it was quite simple – in my mind anyway.

I thought that nobody wanted to read me blathering on about stuff anymore… Well, actually no. I thought nobody wanted to read pages and pages of self obsessed indulgence anymore. Why would they? – They can read all that on Twitter and Facebook in 140 characters or less!

In fact it was simpler than that.

Why bother to spend hours of writing self obsessed rubbish which could be condensed into 140 characters and a photo?

Genuinely, at the time, I thought Twitter was killing off blogs and bloggers alike.

Well, not physically killing them – that would be completely irresponsible and slightly illegal, but possibly providing an easy way out. Like a metaphorical genocide for interweb geeks, Twitter was there – the technological Hitler of our time. Really, it’s simple… all of your blog readers follow you on Twitter and you start to wonder why you bother with a blog at all. Suddenly you wake up one morning to find your laptop charger sliced in two and your external hard drive sucking in the exhaust fumes of your car using a cleverly made hosepipe attachment.

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