1. Explain why you started to blog.

Originally, I started it in June of 2002 as a place for me to post news articles I found interesting and comment on them, post funny images or video clips, and it also doubled as an online journal. I wrote about everything on there, and often I would write about my day before going to bed. For a time, I updated it every day. In fact, I didn’t realise until quite some time later, that a lot of people went to my site for videos and images (this was before Boing Boing, eBaum’s World, etc).

After a bit, though, some of my friends started to question what I wrote, as I pretty much talked about what I did when we hung out (within reason), so there were obviously privacy concerns. This also came back to haunt me with one of my ex-girlfriends, and I lost interest in the site for a while. Ironically, my server suffered a hard drive failure a few weeks after that and I lost everything, so all I have of my old site is what can be found in internet caches, and also this image (which also gives you an idea of the awesome projector setup I had in Calgary).

2. Do people you interact with day to day or family members know about your blog? Why or why not?

For the most part, yes. However, I haven’t been updating site as of late, and I’m sure there are a LOT of more interesting things out there to read these days. Back when I started the site, blogs were still in their infancy. Currently, I use Wordpress, and it seems almost everyone has a blog now, but back in 2002, I had to hack the crap out of a CMS (content management system) called PostNuke, which was never really designed to be a blog, but it served my needs.

3. Do you have a theme for your blog?

This latest rendition of my blog was initially set up so I could track my eating habits and my weight, as I started out at 200lbs, and I hated being that big. I had the idea that if I posted my weight and eating habits for all to see, I would shame myself into losing weight, and you know what? It worked. I got all the way down to 169.2lbs. However, Autumn came around, and I became less active, and also some other things in my life happened, so I started to lose focus, gain back some weight, and forget to update the site. Who know, perhaps I can get back on track again, and make it less about my weight, and more about things I find interesting. Gotta give the people who visit my site something new, or it’s just boring. 

4. What direction would you like to have your blog go in over the next year?

I hope to add more content about what is going on in my life, be it in the form of text, or even YouTube videos. I think I’m an interesting person, and have a unique view of life, and I find that amusing or interesting things happen to me often. Besides, I’ll have a lot of shit going on in the next year or so to keep me busy with the blogging. Just gotta get back into the swing of things. I also want to customise my theme more, which I attempted to do with a complete theme change, but that failed. Most of you hated it, and I didn’t like the fact that different browsers on different platforms displayed it… differently.

5. Pimp five of your favourite blogs.

Blogs I check out with any regularity? Alrighty:

Sparky (needs to update it more often, and YES, I can say that in this case!)
Coaxial
Kimli
Jared McAteer
Jon Ross