I want to avoid any more long periods of not writing in my blog from now on - in fact I hope to post every day. In order to achieve this I have taken a leaf from the book of Raymond Chen (possibly one of the most famous, influential and respected Microsoft bloggers). Raymond posts at 7am every weekday without fail and can do this so consistently (even when he is on holiday) because he has a backlog of posts which currently reaches into late December. So, while some friends were visiting for tea yesterday, I created a buffer of my own.
Now that I have a backlog, when I think of something to write I can jot down a few notes and gradually refine it into a fully-fledged post during the time it's in the queue, instead of planning it and writing it - I longer have to make it into a fully polished post straight away. Maybe this kind of defies the point of blogging (which is supposed to be a raw, unpolished, up to the minute, stream of consciousness kind of thing) but it fits my perfectionist writing style better. I'm sure I'll still make posts about my day-to-day life from time to time, but for the most part I'll talk here about things which interest me and thoughts I've had.
In other news, things achieved today: hair is cut, car oil is replaced and media PC is (hopefully) fixed. I even went to work for a little bit.