Areca Palm

I use Day One as a personal journal. Today, I discovered how to count the words I've written in a month: December of last year was 13,500.

Some of the diary entries end up here on Blipfoto. Some of the blog-like things end up on my website (which is mainly weeknotes these days). For some reason, I was playing around with GitHub Pages again this evening. I'm trying to understand how GitHub works, and this is my gateway. I ended up down a little rabbit hole trying to figure out how to play with layouts. It reminded me of the early days of blogging when Movable Type was the tool I used to write the blog. As it was often referred to, MT allowed lots of tinkering, and GitHub Pages' underlying Jekyll reminds me of that. I am not sure I have the time for it.

While I was playing around with entries, I came across something I'd linked to in 2003 about blogging, and it's still on the web: a blog ...

is usually, but not always, run by a single person, and they publish bits of writing on the weblog fairly frequently — maybe a few times each day, or once a day, or less often.

If only we'd known, some people would still be at it more than twenty years later.

As blogging developed, different styles emerged. The most personal resembled a public diary, and I think Blipfoto expanded on that. My photo today is of my Areca Palm, one of the plants I bought on our [recent garden centre trip. Today was the first day I watered it since I potted it and placed it behind me in the room I use as a workspace.

Anyway, the blog--as a shortened form of a weblog--was a question on Mastermind tonight. I'm glad it wasn't the only one I knew the answer to.