If you follow me on Twitter, I’m sure you were bombarded late this morning by a barrage of tweets from my account telling you about a ridiculous amount of apparent new blog posts on my blog.

Oops

First off, my apologies. I deleted all of the tweets (there were upwards of a hundred of them) but not all Twitter apps will pick up on their deletions.

I updated a bunch of WordPress plugins and one of them went rogue (either WP to Twitter, or Lifestream) and although I’ve at least got it rectified for the time being, I still have to apologize.

That is all on this subject.

UPDATE: I’m beginning to think the issue actually was with the WP to Twitter plugin. Hmmm…

Every once in a while I get an idea in my head that a good way to simply update my blog would be to post what I did on social networking sites throughout a day. Oh, and guess what, there’s a plugin for that! I don’t have to do any actual blogging! Just keep updating my social networks (ie. Twitter, Facebook, last.fm, etc) and my blog will have content! Yay!

I had this idea once before and soon realized that a whole bunch of micro-blogging status updates do not a real blog make. I make no vows and no promises that this site will now suddenly become full of new content, but there will be no more of these sorry excuses for blog entries.

I would love to try to make something out of this website. Pick a topic, and go with it. Would it be all about music? Technology? The Oilers? Is there some kind of marriage I can make between the two or are they so dissimilar that they would require separate websites? Let’s face it. Personal blogs hardly ever make anything of themselves. They appeal to friends, family, and the odd time, someone with similar interests who might end up caring about a personal blog. Personal blogs are also mostly forgotten (much like this one) and rarely updated (yes, there’s always expections to the rule).

I guess the major question I have to ask myself is whether or not I really care about whether or not this blog goes anywhere. I mean, sure, I’d love to have a website that people actually come to read on a daily basis and are actively involved in a commenting capacity, but realistically, if I hardly have any time to update as it is, would it really matter if I just chose a specific topic to write on? Or would it suffer just as much from a lack of updating?

I JUST HAD AN IDEA!!!

I could write a daily blog about how I never have to time to update my blog properly.

BACK TO SERIOUS BUSINESS

Perhaps this blog post is mis-titled. It’s less about a New Direction as much as it is about keeping the Status Quo. OK, there it is. The status quo. I’ll guess I’ll go with that. Well, that, minus those stupid annoying “Thing I Did Today That Probably Weren’t Productive” blog posts that are cluttering up my Facebook Friend’s News Feeds, that people seem to think I actually manually create on a daily basis.

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About 2 weeks ago I had the chance to play host to an old friend, Andrea Burgoyne, and her tour-mates in Speed Control. Andrea’s touring in support of her debut solo EP “One Step, Two Steps” and she’s ridiculously talented. It can be hit-or-miss when you see a friend you haven’t talked to in ages, whether or not you’ll have much to say to each other, but it felt like we were back in high school, just shooting the shit. It was great to see her back on the stage, since I haven’t actually seen her perform since we performed together in Odd One Out.

OK, people, back to your daily lives…