I made a few changes to the site layout today, the most significant of which was to add the comments links on the front page.  You could always comment on a post by clicking on the title of the post and viewing the whole thing, but since I wasn’t excerpting posts, there was never really a need to do this.  I also changed the way the comment-related links and forms are displayed, to make the layout a little more consistent.

This will make it easier for all my nonexistent readers to leave nonexistant comments.

Making this change was sorta a big deal for me.  If you flip through the archives, you’ll find that last year, I posted less than once a month.  The year before, I posted less than once a quarter.  In 2006, I posted less than once a year.  One might infer from this that I’m not an avid poster.  Which isn’t really the case.

Before there was a word for such a thing, I used to keep an online journal pretty regularly.  A convergence of various factors caused me to give it up.  One of those factors (though not the most significant factor) was that there was a tremendous explosion of people doing more or less the same thing, only rather than writing meaningful entries, most of them wrote about their sandwiches, sexual escapades or how they didn’t like that person they used to like.  Of those three topics, only the sandwiches were really interesting.  I got hives just hearing about what other people were writing, and stopped keeping a journal out of a desire to keep my medical expenses down.  My allergies only got worse when people starting using the word Blog

One might infer from this that I’m a bit of a pretentious snob.  That may really be the case.

As time has gone on, I think I’ve finally admitted that my attitude about the whole thing was, and still is, pretty damn silly, and that the reason I gave up keeping an online journal probably had more to do with a few specific people, and much less to do with anything else.

There was one other governing factor: I guess I didn’t really feel like I had much to say.  As I’ve started posting updates here, I’ve discovered that I have more to say than I thought.

So, I’ve made it easier to comment.  I know that might not seem like it follows naturally, but having more to say has meant I’m more interested in hearing what you think.  Let’s see how that goes.