My blog is looking pretty dusty, and this post, rather than being a deep clean, is little more than me rubbing my fingers across the accumulated decay and letting out a disapproving tut.

I just looked over my “New Years” post from last year where I claim that as a New Year’s Resolution that I was going to blog more; I could pretty much repost that 2010 post and just relabel it as a 2011 post… but there is one key difference. I am actually going to do it this year. “Yeah, sure you will”, you may be thinking, and of course most New Year’s Resolutions are, it would seem, doomed to failure but my first one will not fail. This is to delete my Facebook account, which is trying with it’s new timeline feature/layout to become more like a blog, I already have a blog, so I do not see a need for facebook, a ‘service’ which I’ve never much liked anyway and whose practices, along with other web properties, I’m becoming much more deeply distrusting of and cynical about. Anyway, the detailed reasons behind the decision may make a further post, by deleting Facebook I anticipate making better use of this blog, but for now, I wish you a Happy New Year.

By the way if you’re struggling for New Year’s Resolutions, you could get some ideas from the start of this (I may very well use them all):