Without the restrictions of regular media, we pajama-wearers can do whatever we want. For the most part, something is written when it’s ready to be written, and then it’s only as long as it needs to. Some people, like me, have very few things to say, so we say them infrequently.

Indeed, there’s much to be said for “the idea of posting infrequently as a deliberate editorial approach”.

In a way, I suppose you could consider everything I’ve blurted over there as a perpetual blog post. Certainly all of the things I would have blogged about wound up as tweets, or series of tweets, instead. But it’s not quite the same thing. It’s not as permanent, for sure, and since I’m terrible at remembering stuff it doesn’t really serve me well as an outboard brain.

So with that in mind, and being in the mood to make more of an effort, I’ve started link-logging again — if only to keep tabs on where my mind is going — and I plan to pop back in here to expand on my thoughts from time to time. “The unexamined life” and all that.

But no rush, mind.

Fix categories: I’ve got far too many categories in both of my blogs, and now that I have tag functionality (see below) most of them are completely unnecessary. Five or six catch-all categories is all I really need, so these will be condensed forthwith.

Set up tags: Now that I’ve upgraded to MT 4, I can haz tags! I’ve already used a handy script to convert my jury-rigged entry keyword tags into tags proper; now I need to code up templates for the tag archives so I can actually use them.

Update my status: My status sidebar on the main page is fine, if a little unwieldy. It could benefit from better functionality: my latest listening via Last.fm perhaps, or live(ish) location info from my Dopplr account. Anything to make it a bit more dynamic.

Fix archive pages: I haven’t decided if my monthly, category (and soon-to-come tag) archive pages should include the full entries or just links to them. I’m inclined to go with the latter, so my templates will need some minor tweaking.

Update non-blog pages: Most of the non-blog pages of this site have been either orphaned or lost after my clean install of MT 4, so that must be rectified. I’ve got almost everything saved elsewhere, so it won’t be a problem. This also provides me a good opportunity to change things up a little.

Update feeds: My RSS and Atom feed templates are broken in MT 4, which is not good. They should be up and running again now, using the default templates as a stop-gap, but they really require a proper going over, so I’m adding them to the ‘To Do’ pile.

Well not a lot, going by the lack of activity here (unless you count my Twitter updates). But I’ll have you know that my real life has been far more eventful.

Getting the job, of course, meant I could afford to finally leave the nest and get a place of my own, which I did in January this year. I’m now in an apartment in The Liberties, overlooking what remains of the old city wall. I’ve got a nice landlord, too. He was kind enough to drop by with his spare key by when I locked myself out that one time.

And I’m not here on my own. Benitha came over in February, spent a few frustrating weeks getting her immigration status sorted, and a few more months getting used to life in Dublin, which is a big change for a South African girl.

Some things she was prepared for from previous experience, like being able to walk through the city centre after sunset without fear of being shot in the head. Others came as a surprise, such as the long summer days (sunlight till 10pm was a surprise) and the humidity (on a par with tropical KwaZulu-Natal, where she grew up). But I think she likes it here. And more importantly, we’re not sick of each other just yet.

Travel-wise, May saw us traipsing to deepest Somerset for the All Tomorrow’s Parties festival, the most striking memory of which is watching J Mascis pose for a photo with a giant ice cream cone.

And last month we went to Paris — where we saw some amazing sights, gawked at some terrible art, and ate some pretty good food — before a short break at Disneyland, where even my unfortunate tumble[1] couldn’t spoil all the fun. Oh, and our hotel room was enormous. As in ‘Am I sure they gave us the right one?’ enormous.

And that’s the highlights, more or less. I’m sure something else will come to mind tomorrow and I’ll kick myself for not remembering it. But if I kept holding out for such things, you wouldn’t be reading any of this.

Anywho, you can hook yourself up with the Uberfeed right here.

PS: If anyone knows why the Macrolog feed isn’t presently filtering into the Uberfeed, feel free to tell me (my e-mail is on the About page).

Right now? Plans are being made, bags are being packed and loose ends tied up before my long-awaited return to South Africa. T minus 12 days and counting. You better believe I’m counting.

In the meantime, happy 31o8 Day.