Tuesday, August 28, 2007

As some might know, I subscribe to a mind boggling amount of blogs in Bloglines, so the fact that a few minutes ago I didn't have a single unread post is quite astonishing. And will undoubtedly change very soon! It has taken quite a bit of effort to whittle down this huge amount of inspiration and information. I started before we went to Denmark and got the 8000+ (!!!!!) unreads down to about 1500 (I think). Of course, that went up again while we were away, but in the last couple of days I've had another go at it!

So from now on I'm going to try and keep it more manageable, maybe even get rid of some of the feeds (gasp!). And I'm certainly going to try to not keep everything new. That is a really bad habit. "Oh that looks interesting, I'll read it properly when I have time". Yeah, right. I usually don't come back and read it. In fact, I usually forget all about it.

It is some kind of digital pack rat-ism. I'm not sure exactly what is supposed to happen if I don't save every interesting little morsel. I think I sometimes justify it with "but it's for inspiration!" (try saying that with a Luke "but I was going into Tosche Station.." Skywalker kind of voice and I think you know what I mean!), but that's pretty stupid, because I shouldn't take inspiration from others, I should come up with it myself. Of course, there's nothing wrong with getting inspired by others, it's just the excessive-ness of all these links and posts and such...

Sometimes I keep a post new because it has a pretty picture, and that is really the silliest reason at all. Especially considering that I have a "Borrowed pictures" folder on my computer with several sub-folders for different kinds of pictures: colour inspiration, interiors, projects, flowers and research material for things I'm working on. That's where those pretty pictures should go, if anywhere.

So, next I'll be trying to* get rid of a good portion of those posts I've kept new so far. I mean, almost 10,000 (!), that's kinda embarrassing! Of course, the ultimate goal would be getting those down to zero as well, but that's probably not going to happen!


*Do or do not, there is no try!

Labels: geeky, inspiration