This blog has gone through some incarnations, and the latest one is actually still in progress. This time the blog will expand on a scale that has not been seen before.
When I first started this blog about a year ago, I didn't really know what I was going to do with it. I had had several failed homepages before, but I had heard a lot of hype about blogging, so I signed up to find out what it was all about. Soon, after the Hello post, I was was stumped. I didn't know what it was for. So I screwed around with the colours of the template, eventually even with the layout, and even later the whole look was redesigned from the ground up to what you see before you now.
During this time, the blog had a dual purpose: dialy links. I would give a link for every day. Eventually, however, this became hard to keep up, especially as my surfing habits changed to more serious and involved material. It became harder for me to find funny, light-hearted stuff to find. But by then, another function had replaced the now defunct changes of skin.
This time the blog functioned as kind of an online diary, which at times was funny or interesting, but usually lame and boring. This phase is to date the worst phase of my blog. However, I did try out a cool way of providing links: the Wikipedia style, which I think is very good, but also a lot of effort to code and double-check compared to just not linking. This extra effort is why I haven't applied this linking style consistently.
Eventually I realised the futility and pointlessness of my blog. So we enter the next transformation. This time, it won't just be a blog, it'll be my personal publishing portal, a breeding ground for my web projects. The idea is that the blog will be completely Web 2.0, at least from my side. My projects may or may not be wholly Web 2.0 for users.
The current change of focus (see the Blog focus change post) is but a preliminary phase. I am currently working on getting the blog and the portal page for my new site functioning. I am also deciding how it will be hosted. Every web project of mine will be pretty much independent from the others. They will all have different looks and feels, and function as totally seperate sites. They will all be planned properly. And they will all either grow or wither.
I am expecting this to take a fair amount of time, what with semester tests currently and all. But I'm sure that the end result will satisfy (me at the very least).
If you don't know what I'm talking about, that's OK, because I don't want to set anything in stone yet I'm being very vague about this whole thing. But I'm sure you will understand once it is finished.
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