I stuck a MyBlogLog thing on the sidebar. I don’t know why. Because I could, I suppose. Plus I saw in one set of stat reports that someone was reading my blog through the MyBlogLog site. Which is both interesting and infuriating. Interesting because it’s clever how it did that without my apparent knowledge (although yes, I did sign up to the site for some gods unknown reason) and infuriating because they’re not coming here dammit!

Everytime I start thinking about a redesign, I lose the will to live because I wonder why the hell I should bother. (Also, I then get distracted and go and do something else instead like bash my head repeatedly against a wall, my lack of ideological principles or someone elses head until everything goes comfortably numb) Fuck syndication, fuck it up its stupid arse. Why bother maintaining a site that no-ones coming to visit. Apart from Matt. And Endie. And Lyle occasionally. Where was I?

Oh yes, so anyway, MyBlogLog. I actually hate it. I think it’s one of the ugliest widgets I’ve seen and I’m not entirely sure I like the data its presenting. More to the point, I’m not sure I want people to see the data its presenting. It’s interesting to me but when I see it on a site, I actually feel like I’m being violated. Just a little bit but even so. Still, I thought it would be interesting to see what happens here for a little bit, even though it’s heinously horrendous to look at. Then again, so are the other widgets I’m throwing in with gay abandon over there. Colour me bothered.

Back to syndication: I know that my posts get published elsewhere. The fact that I write occasionally about MMOs mean that my posts get published to some news aggregator sites. This irks me. (Annoy would be too strong a word). It probably doesn’t help that this site is named after a much anticipated, yet to be released MMO as well. So I wondered whether I could/should edit my RSS feed to provide indication of a new post but rather than contain the contents of the post, leave a message saying something like “Yes I’ve posted something new and it might be worth your while to read so perhaps you’d like to get off your lazy arse and come to my site and read it there, fucker!”

A different message, less polite perhaps, might be in order for blog aggregators.

Of course, I won’t get around to doing any of this because I just won’t. MyBlogLog will stay there forever beneath my never updated Last.fm list on that bland background shade of pale white with insipid pastel blue bordering, waiting for the darkness to descend and claim it for its own. I just need to take the step to rip the entire guts out of the beast.

No flesh shall be spared.