Today marks the 365th day of daily, consecutive blogging—without missing a single day! I’m like a hero. Alright, Well maybe not. But regardless, I am proud of myself for sticking to it. But, I admit, I’m a bit compulsive. Usually I like to do things in even increments. Like for example, if I’m going to take a walk, I want to walk one whole block, or five whole blocks. I wouldn’t like to walk two and a half blocks, then get picked up by someone.
So, with this blog, I’m presented with quite a paradox. I’m pleased that it’s now been one even year of blogging, but I’m distressed that it’s an uneven 365 days. What’s a compulsive person to do? I suppose I’ll be trapped in a cycle of blogging until the day I die.
Anyway, In the interest of this post being as much like tv-show-flashback-special as possible, I thought it would be an appropriate to recall a few of the posts over the last year that we especially well read or liked or hated or whatever. So, here we go.
December 18th, 2007 - Top 10 Seriously Epic Songs
This was originally posted on my blog hosted on Wordpress.com before I switched over to my own server. This was written mostly as a pseudo-inside joke between some friends who love to dub things as "epic" with a unique definition of the word. Since it was written last year, it’s had about 4,000 readers. Pretty weird.
June 21st, 2008 - A Good Bible Reading Plan to Plan on Reading
John Piper recommended the Discipleship Journal Bible Reading Plan in his book When I Don’t Desire God (reviewed here). I tried it out and found it to be quite fantastic. This post was a write up encouraging others to try it also. Since then, quite a few people I know have (although I can’t necessarily take credit for that). I’m still using it, and still loving it.
April 21st, 2008 - Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
The documentary Expelled came out earlier this year, I wrote a fond review of the film, citing that it made some good points. But, within hours of posting it a small war broke out in the comments field of the post. I attempted to put a calm on the topic, but reason and personal relations were lost on the comment authors. I ended up deleting the entire thread of inflammatory comments and their retorts (including mine) and closing down commenting on the post altogether. That action however made me into a suspect of being part of the gigantic conspiracy to suppress science in then name of religion (Hmm, news to me). The flurry of negative attention was surprising and a tad comical, but nevertheless, lesson learned: turn the comments field off on all hugely controversial topics. No sense in cultivating irresolvable controversies.
April 24th, 2008 - 10 Ideas for Better Study & Devotion
I can’t remember where the idea for this post was born out of, but I got a fair amount of positive feedback, both in the comments field and in person from folk’s who’d read it. The gist was to share some of the practical things that have helped me, and people I know, to enjoy better times reading the bible and praying.
November 15th, 2007 - The Ever-Being in the Center
This is kind of a prose that was born after finishing CS Lewis’ The Great Divorce. I’m not sure I recall exactly how the inspiration came from that, perhaps just literary style. But, regardless, it was one of the writings that inspired me to start a blog in the first place. It’s still something I’m pleased with, even though I’ve never gone back and made modifications.
Well, I think that about does it for this year. Check out these hi-lights and drop in your opinion, if you want. As for me, it looks like I’ll keep on blogging every day–at least until we get the calendar officially changed so that a year is an even 400 days!
Bah, good luck with that!
November 8th, 2008 at 8:12 pm
Congrats Bill! 365 days of consecutive posting? You Monk you! I remember each of these famous and notorious posts! Haha.
November 9th, 2008 at 8:52 am
HUGE congratulations on 365 consecutive posts, Bill. That is no small feat. As a content producer myself, I understand the difficulty of coming up with something fresh every day.
In regards to Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, I recently interviewed one of the producers of the film, John Sullivan. If you care to listen, it’s at expelled.LifespringMedia.com. I would be interested in your comments.