“Fiddle-de-dee’s not English.”

Hi everyone,

This is an announcement saying that I’m going to post all book-related stuff to Dreamwidth now, where the rest of my journal resides. I am yati there; here’s the full URL: http://yati.dreamwidth.org/. If you decide to follow that journal, it’ll be a mix of posts about other things as well and not just books, though entry about books are tagged as “books“.

I like this site, and I like WordPress and being able to maintain a separate blog for books, but I’ve discovered that it’s taking up too much of my time.

(Here is where everyone frowns and wonders how just posting could take too much of my time.)

I have this bad habit of wanting to know everything, you see. While it doesn’t seem like I spend too much time posting about books, I do spend ridiculous amounts of time figuring out how things work — I keep poking the code and polishing the layout and taking it apart and putting it back together, and at one point I almost decided to write plugin because I couldn’t find something that worked the way I wanted it to, but I backed out at the last minute because it needed research and figuring things out and debugging, all of which needed time.

I do the same at Dreamwidth — I poke around and play with the code there as well, and I like doing it there more than I like messing with code elsewhere. Of course, there are other reasons why I like being on Dreamwidth, and I’ve also decided that I shouldn’t be trying to do so many things at one time. It’s not just this blog; I’m cutting off some other things I’ve been meddling with as well, because I think I’m losing focus on what I actually want to do.

I know some of you guys don’t like LiveJournal or sites that run on the same code as LJ does (which is what Dreamwidth is: the code is forked from LJ and improved on), but OpenID works there if you want to comment, and you don’t need an account just to read posts, so I think there’s really no harm in moving. :) This week’s Weekly Geeks entry on catching up on reviews in already posted there.

Hope to see you guys around.

Cheers
Yati