kicking and screaming

I've finally given up and surrendered to the 21st century. I always kind of had an antipathy for blogs, especially when they first debuted as forums for people to post a new picture of their cat for every day of the week.

After being invited by a friend to start a blog as a record of our time as American ex-pat's I wrestled with my blog as a platform for the kind of long form essays I was getting into at the time. (I'm Still In Japan). Once I left Japan I've tried to continue the thing with "Windowsills", but for a variety of reasons haven't been able to keep up with it.

In the meantime I've become a solid addict of a variety of internet sites, and got really into posting links in my gmail chat away message. Now that I'm straining against the space of that every day figure I might as well go ahead and start one of those blogs I used to hate: straight up aggregations of the detritus floating around the internet I find vaguely interesting and putting them in one place. So voila, "minor aggregations".

I'm drawing the line at Twitter though. That shit just looks manic.