So, I decided last night to update my blog, change it to a new theme, and basically give it a totally new look again. Its tasks like these that entertain me. For some reason, hours will fly by as I’m downloading something to play with, editing the code to my liking, and perfecting how I want it. There’s so much unreasonable bloat with WordPress themes, and what I really hate is the ‘free’ themes you find have links to gambling and such sites.
You see these people give away these themes for free, while at the same time promoting other sites. If 1,000 sites install this theme, then when Google indexes them, they will see 1,000 links pointing at this page about, lets say, horse racing. This inflates the page rank of the horse racing site, and it will rank up higher in search results. Is it ethical? Not too many things are anymore.
Anyhow, I hate stuff like that. I don’t really want to promote things like that either. So I take the time to edit that stuff out, get rid of a few boxes I don’t need, and tweak here and there. Overall I think I’m satisfied with the new look, and think it better reflects me than that impressionist theme I had before.
I want to start blogging again, and keep it up. I want to record my daily thoughts and fears, but quite frankly, I’m just not interesting enough anymore to do it as much as I used to. I’ve been reduced to a corporate drone, work and sleep, and nothing more. My professional and personal lives are spent behind a screen, or occasionally at work inspecting construction. But jesus, the paper work there is the real job, not making sure someone installs an expansion joint right.
Here’s to bureaucracy .
