A final post
Seeing as it's now over a year since my last post, I guess it's safe to say that I no longer have any interest in updating this blog.
It's an enjoyable trip, looking back...
I can't say for sure when I started blogging. Or, blogging as we now know it, at least. The first post here is circa April 2002, when I was in the middle of developing my own CMS. Before then, I had something like this. That was all long before I launched v6 of this site, in 2008, when I eventually migrated to WordPress.
From version to version, blogging has consistently played an integral role in the way I've presented myself online.
I don't feel much sentiment toward the majority of my blog content, which is a good indication that I never took it all that seriously. My archive is littered with trivial rubbish and outdated content which I no longer want to associate with. That, coupled with a lack of motivation, a desire to minimise information overload that blogging presents, the meteoric rise in microblogging, and how I now feel about amateur blogging in general, are my primary reasons for deciding to retire my blog indefinitely.
Moving forward...
My immediate plan (albeit long overdue) is an exercise in rebranding.
If you follow my activity elsewhere online, you might have noticed my new logo design, which I recently launched across all my social networking profiles. Next up, I will be redesigning this site. This will be accompanied by the simultaneous launch of a new brand to represent my business venture. Sparing the detail, my intention is to separate my personal and professional identities. I've outgrown my coda alias for business purposes, and am really looking forward to starting something fresh.
I do intend to keep my blog (after a thorough purge of my 800+ posts), and will carry it through in the redesign, but it will remain inactive and will not be a feature of the site.
To the readers of this blog over the last 8 or so years, old and new, I thank you for your time and sincerely hope you found some value in what I've posted here, or in the comments that followed. I have some good (and some not so good) memories of my blogging experiences and appreciate that I could share them all with you.
Please connect with me on Twitter @coda_za, where I continue to microblog more trivial rubbish, until the next big thing...
Cheers for now!
Dress up. Leave a false name. Be legendary.
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