Housekeeping..

I decided to clean up my blog over the weekend. Actually, I was considering for a while there buying yet another domain and starting all over but then I realized, there really wasn’t any point to that. I had just become lazy to maintain this one because I felt it had become a bit messy. So I decided to do a few things: 1. Upgrade my wordpress installation to 2.8 (had been on 2.5 for the longest time ) and 2. Delete the twitter integration.

1. Surprisingly, it wasn’t as painful as I thought it would be. This guide details everything, i think the most difficult part was step 0, which I skipped. I thought, well, if this installation messes up then I guess it’s time for a restart :p. Luckily, it didn’t. It was just a matter of copying over the new wordpress files and running the script. Definitely not as painful as I had imagined. The upgrade made me feel good, at least gave me a feeling of some sort of freshness.

2. I realized that my twitter integration thingamajig was making me more lazy to blog. Plus, It made my site look like crap whenever there was silence. I realized, if my friends want to read about my twitter activities, they’d probably go to my twitter page. I delete my aggregated twitter posts. Well I guess not all of it, it was too taxing to delete them all so I just went as far back as I could and gave up. I think there are still more in the archives but at least my front page is cleaner now.

I have decided I should put more effort into blogging, maybe set aside some time in a week at least. I know it’s going to be good therapy for me if I do.