After a two and a half year break I finally decided that I should probably do something about this blog. Earlier this year I had tried to upgrade it, but as it was going from a version so old that WordPress didn’t even recognise it any more, trying to go straight to the new version without upgrading to the interim ones broke my site. Everything looked ok from the outside but I couldn’t get inside.
I’ve just finished reading Glover’s Mistake, and the main character is a blogger. Like so many who live out their lives online he’s an incomplete person – whose insecurities manifest themselves in behaviour which is entirely self-serving, and who is haunted by the fact that life is being lived by other people and not by himself – and his blog is the only thing which affords him any self-respect. What he writes is self-conscious and sneering, of course, and no great advert for writing a blog, but it made me realise I miss the discipline of writing which this affords me, and so decided to resurrect it.
So I googled “broken word press blog”, found a guy (or woman?) called Zulf, from bloginstallationservice.com, and he got the whole thing up and running again. Even my theme – now completely incompatible with the modern WP – was rescued, and so here I am now, ready to go. Just as soon as I’ve cleared out the 73,468 comments.
Now what to write about…