Manifesto
If, for some reason, you visited the Sci-Fi Hi-Fi site in the last year or so, you probably noticed the, shall we say, minimalist aesthetic of the site’s designer. Admittedly, at one point, during my long and torturous period of post-collegiate unemployment in 2001, I had some pretensions of maintaining a weblog in this space—but they didn’t last. Once I finally landed a job and began once again to code all the live-long day, the appeal of keeping up my website faded and the space fell into disuse.
Alright, I admit it, that’s bollocks: my job wasn’t the only reason I abandoned on my weblog. A lot of it had to do with the fact that I had probably started it for the wrong reasons: to impress the insular, SXSW-attending, Lomo-toting, weblog “elite,” rather than simply to record my life experiences, Pepys-like. It is one of the singular oddities of Internet life that weblogs have transformed journaling from a private, introspective pursuit into a way of attaining minor celebrity. Somewhere along the line I forgot that it was about the writing and not trying to gain cred with a bunch of dot-com losers.
All of that changes today, however—at least for me. The annus-horribilis (shut up Beavis!) that began with my unemployment is now far behind me, I’m comfortable in my job and profession, and my first independently developed software application has been an unalloyed success (thanks PodWorks users!). I just came back from MacWorld in San Francisco, and am thrilled to say I will be making a long awaited return visit to the UK and Ireland in March. I’m starting to feel like I’m back on top after a long period of decline, and, now that I’m revisiting my failed journal and the “writer” part of my personality, I’m once again firing on all cylinders.
So, watch this space.