A change is far better than a rest
When I first conceived of this weblog, I had grand ideas and plans for it. The Watchmaker Project would be a staging ground for my experiments in design, art, music, programming – a feast of creativity, all entertainingly narrated by a witty and frequently updated blog.
In actual fact, the reality has been rather deflating – it seemed without a blog that all I could think about were ideas that needed an audience; but now the space to publish is available, my well has run dry – as evidenced by the lengthy absences already evident in a blog a mere couple of months old.
I attribute this partly to what has always been a major failing of mine: over-design.
I can’t seem to settle on one design element or theme and leave it alone – I just have a compulsion to keep fiddling, and making it worse, until eventually I get thoroughly fed up of my work and start all over again, as I have today.
Of course, this is not helped by the fact that my design skills are pretty painful, and when one spends a sizeable chunk of the day browsing some of the most beautiful blogs around, it’s bound to throw your own paltry efforts into stark relief.
So I start again (again).
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