Writing a blog, at least the kind that I keep here, isn’t really all that difficult. It’s relatively easy to churn out copy that’s full of personal opinion and conjecture on whatever topic happens to strike your interest. The real challenge comes when you want to take you musings in a more focused direction. God love ’em, I don’t know how these more professional blogger keep up that schedule. Fortunately, my little slice of the internet here isn’t going in one of those more focused directions. The biggest challenge I’ve found recently is that I seem to have lost many of my tags when I brought my original posts over from Blogger. Over the last few days I’ve been trying to update those and probably managed to wade through about 40-50 of them.

Cataloging, indexing, and tagging is not something that’s absolutely necessary, but it’s good policy if you’re planning on staying active with writing or even if you just want to be able to find posts you wrote several years ago. The process of actually fixing it when those things go horribly, horribly wrong, however, is painfully mind numbing. I’ve probably got another few hours of tagging and categorizing left before things look up. Thank God the site itself is pre-designed and essentially self maintaining… How does anyone have the time to maintain these things and do anything else?