Ramblings

I've been looking at ways to revamp my site (both the backend and the appearance), and as collateral I've been reading what I've written (and dared to publish!) from around 2004-2006.

I'm not impressed. I didn't have a very mature worldview, to say the least. Neither did I have much in the way of writing style. So I can do one of two things - a) write less, waiting for more substantive, rounded ideas to write about or b) write more - a lot more, forcing myself to engage in the deliberate practice of writing.

I'm leaning towards b) once I get the backend up and running for my "new" site. Until then, I will be putting more "work" into the act of writing - little things like rereading before I click the publish button, and coming back to what I've written maybe a month after the fact and giving myself a critical

There's something to be said for talent though, which I may not have - This economics blog written by a 20-year-old is far better than most economics blogs, regardless of author age/education level.

And for those who are wondering, I'm switching my static HTML pages of that embarrassing stuff I wrote from 2004-2006 to a Django/MySQL solution. The last redesign I did around 2007, I actually separated content from formatting in anticipation of this task. I just didn't think it would take 2 years. And if anyone knows of a reasonably doable way of migrating my blog from blogger to my own database, I'd appreciate the help.