Monday 11 February 2008

Pic of the day: "Everything with a shape is going to break in time" is of course yet another translation of the Buddha's last words. Which, incidentally, I seem to have quoted frequently before I read them, although I suppose cryptomnesia is not entirely impossible. Or I may simply have noticed the same thing, which is kind of hard NOT to notice: All that has form is subject to decay, all things made of parts eventually come apart, all things in the world are temporary. Whatever your translation, you can add one more thing to the list today.

No more daily Chaos

This has been obvious for a while already. So here is the why and the how.

I started this journal in 1998, at a time long before the word "blog" was coined. I did not even know that there were other personal journals at all, but I found this out after a few months. That's also where I got the idea that I could archive my daily ramblings. From the late spring or early summer through October 1998, I used filenames like "Sunday.htm", "Monday.htm" etc. So those entries are lost forever, barring the invention of time machines. Looking at the first entries that were archived, this was probably no big loss.

Over the next years I would write about almost anything that was on my mind, for anyone to read. Blogs were still not invented, and when they were, they were rather different beasts from my journal. This was pretty much the only place I wrote, except the forums for online comics. But this changed when I got my first LiveJournal. Later I would get journals for my games, and later other blogs here and there, each of them written for a different audience. But becoming everything for everyone is a bit beyond my reach, and there was less left for the Chaos Node.

Also, I feel that I have written about so many things already, more than any sane person would want to read. Unless I really do become famous for some reason, nobody would want to know me this well. In fact, if you read it all you will probably know me better than you know yourself, because if you are a normal human you barely know yourself at all. This is the kind of things I might still want to write about. But whether I should write it here or somewhere else, I have not decided yet. Perhaps both.

For the time being, I intend to keep the same website and the same structure, but most of the day in the month will be left blank, with simple no-entry entries. Most of the rest will be quick notes, and a few will be worth reading. Also I will probably continue to post Sims entries, since a) my sims live more interesting lives than me to the random human (and certainly more similar to the lives of random humans), and b) I want it backed up anyway in case LiveJournal discontinues its service.

So, lots of gaps in the fossil record, some short notes, some gray matter and some sims. Whatever else I feel like.