Welcome!!
The critically acclaimed, yet much ignored, original Poonheads.com feature has returned. Wisdom is back!
As you may or may not remember, the original Poonheads.com did not have a News section... it had Wisdom. I didn't want to limit the literary section of my site to just news, or just a personal blog, or just a place to discuss the technical aspects of my comicking. I wanted a place where I could combine all of these into one comprehensive collection. I wanted a place where I could write a thousand words of smart, thoughtful, prose that would complement the asinine antics of the characters in my comics. I wanted a place where I could share my wisdom with the world.
I don't mean to sound arrogant, even though that's how it seems sometimes. It just happens that I know a lot about a lot of things. I know a lot about things that many people don't think about. I think about a lot of things that people don't know about. Many of the things I think about are things that most people don't want to think about. I thought that my unique perspective on things would be of some use to everyone out there. Everyone who wants a unique perspective on things, anyway. And I thought my website would make a great vehicle for such perspectives.
As far as I know, not a whole lot of people actually read the wisdom. With the decline in comic production towards the end of Poonheads 2, I let the Wisdoms slip as well. Upon creating the current incarnation of Poonheads Dot Com, Wisdom faded completely into News where I primarily bitched about not having enough time to update and how stressed I was.
Now that Wisdom is back, however, I'll attempt to be just as insightful as I was once upon a time. With any luck, I'll update more often (perhaps daily). I'll try my damnedest to avoid writing about depressing emo crap. And I'll undoubtedly be as verbose as ever.
So, now that you all know what's in store, you're probably wondering why I've succumbed to a prepackaged, third party blogging software. I typically do things myself and tend to enjoy the coding and creating of custom apps. These days, I code all day at work and, in the very near future, I'll be programming a large custom app for the dean of my school. When I get home in the evening, the last thing I want to do is more of the same.
The current system is pretty good, why not just use that? Several reasons. First of all, it's cumbersome. I have to code everything by hand in either HTML or the custom markup I created. Also, the permissions on my server are always getting reset, so before I make a post, I've always got to go in and change the permissions back.
Secondly, I would rather trust the security of my data to someone who deals with it daily. That's what Blogger is. That's what they do and they do it well. Not to mention they're owned by Google. If the blog server goes down, Google will have to deal with it, not me. I dont' have to deal with tech support. It's all abstracted and very magical. And, because it's a different server, if my web server goes down or gets compromised, Wisdom will remain intact and online.
Thirdly, joining a community, such as Blogger, will provide more exposure. More exposure == more readers. With more readers, my wisdom will not go wasted into the night. What's the point of creating something if no one will see it? There's isn't one.
So, now that I've got an easier and faster way of getting my ideas down on paper (and by "down on paper", I mean "online"), I'll hopefully be able to retain the motivation to keep it up this time. Keep checking back to see what happens. Or don't. You're call.
Well, it's getting late and I'm finding it more and more difficult to form cohesive thoughts, so I think I'm going to go to bed.
Until Next time.
~~Ben
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