Tripalog

I really hate blogs. Seriously. They are such a waste of bandwidth. I am typing absolutely nothing worth reading right now.

If someone is reading this, then I am wasting his/her time.

If no one is reading this, then I am wasting my time.

Either way, this is a waste of time.

How many of us realize that 99.9% of blog content (and that means mine and yours too) is of no interest to anyone other than the writer and the writer's stalker ex-girlfriends? Sure, a long lost friend will get a kick out of reading a blog entry or two, just to see if the writer's personality has changed, but after the "still a dork" realization kicks in, the long-lost friend decides it's better to stay lost, and that's that. No more blog reading. The writer is back to apostrophizing again.

Apostrophizing… is that a word? Who cares. I'll leave it an "exercise for the reader" to go look up apostrophizing on dictionary.com.

Exercise for the reader? Yeah, right. Exercise for nobody but myself 5 years from now when I go re-reading my blog to see if there are any hidden gems.

There ain't, Trav. There ain't. This is crappity crap crap and you know it. You knew it then (when I am writing this) and you know it now (when I am reading this). I'm just been talking to myself all along. Years of talking to myself.

Blogs are so dumb. They are just journals. Total waste of bandwidth. Too much repetition. No real effort goes into constructing or steering the thoughts. It's just improvisation. A mess. Like my music.

And that, folks (i.e., future Trav and stalker ex-gfs) is why after creating music for 26+ years I have made $0 from it. I haven't sold a single CD. Or story. Or photo. Or movie. Zippo.

The fact is, no one "out there" cares what I think or do. I am anonymous. Just like them. Just like you.

Okay, I'm starting to get a rough idea of how I can use this blog.

Oooooops, never mind. Sorry. Too much work.

Blogs are stupid. By stupid, I mean they're really stupid.

I hate reading people's blogs. Mine will suck too.

So why create one?

Why bother???

Well, I don't know. I would rather be constructing something atomic (e.g., a song) than just blabbing away about my soap-opera-esque thoughts. Not that my life/routine is mappable to soap opera dramatics/histrionics. Blaa blaa blaa.

You know, there's not a person on earth whose blog I would like to read *except* for people who know me and might talk about me. That's the only reason I would read a blog; to read about myself. Why else would I pay attention to someone else's thoughts.

Okay, I'll amend that idea. The other people's blogs don't have to talk about me, but they do have to talk about things that are "mine". By "mine" I mean things that I feel are closer to me than the average LCD or geek. If you don't know what "LCD" means then "LCD" is not yours. Does that make sense? Not really. Bad sentence. bad paragraph. bad capitalizeation. abd apelling. bad syphins.

Nice, trav. Real nice.

Anyway, my point:

The only reason to write and read a blog is to focus on myself. Therefore, I want to control every bit of info I type. I don't care if anyone reads this, really. Okay, so that makes this whole thing seem like a waste.

Well, it is.

Instead of a blog, what I need is a way to edit my own websites from multiple computers. That way, I can be refining my genuinely valuable efforts rather than blaaaabing away without adding any real value to the world.

Blogs are really really really stupid.

So what's the point?

Why create a blog on a 3rd party server like blogspot.com?

If I want my words written in stone, I need to control the master files. How do I do that with Blogger?

Some requirements:

1) backup or publish blog entries (and comments) to a computer I control
— e.g., tripalot.com
— e.g., my local pc

2) be able to turn those entries' files into legible text w/o needing software
— they should be xml
— XSL could turn them into a "full" page

Can Blogger do this? Can any blogging tool?

NOTE: This was originally posted on blogspot.