My excuses for not updating

(Picture is out of date but not digitally messed with for once)

It's so easy to start a Blogger blog. It encourages you to approach blogging with a certain idleness that I'm happy to indulge myself with.

Blogger is brilliant the way you can just pick a theme and have a blog. You can alter the look of the blog with minimal skills as well. You don't even need a web host. You don't need a layout design or to choose a million Ajax widgets.

It's a happy amateur thing.

You are never going to be a target to be corrupted Like those people who blogged their drive across America, staying in WalMart carparks in their camper van . (Apparently, they found happy smiley WalMart employees everywhere.. Oh yes, by the way, guess who sponsored them)

The only downsides to having a blogger blog are that

• you aren't likely to get into the blogristocracy easily, unles syou can remember to do all the Technorati tagging and join blogrolls and so on
• Wordpress blogs have a million complex plug-ins and you can tweak them to death if you have the time and skills.
  
• it's so easy to start that a lot of blogs have one post in 2004 and are never seen again
• it's also so easy that a lot of blogs are about "I fed my cat and it scratched my sofa..." You know who you are...
  

Trying to avoid the latter - I know nobody is interested, it's hard enough to interest people you actually know in the minutiae of your life- I've not posted anything here for months.
Tags: idleness, update, blogger