So It's Come To This – A Blog Clips Show

It took a bit of doing, (well, 999 bits actually) but this morning I published my 1,000th blog post.

As I've taken 15 posts down over the years for the odd random reason, today's clips-show is a complete index of the remaining 984 entries, broken-up into the sections that they seem to have naturally fallen-into.

1. Autobiographical
2. Bible reviews
3. Book reviews
4. Celebrity Bible-Readers
5. Comic reviews
6. Doctor Who reviews
7. Film reviews
8. Games
9. Multimedia-ish posts
10. Music reviews
11. Radio reviews
12. Stage reviews
13. TV reviews

Some fell-into more than one category, while anything that seemed miscellaneous I just lumped in with 'autobiographical', which they all are, really.

Without a doubt, the posts that I have enjoyed writing the most are the autobiographical ones. For better or worse, my life is a little less-eventful these days, so those pieces have accordingly dried-up lately. I find this a shame, because without them I just wouldn't bother.

So - are 1,000 blog-posts something to be proud of or not? Should I punch the air at such an achievement, or curl-up and hide my shame at having wasted so much of my life on such introspection - worse, introspection on the flipping internet?

I just don't know, but I'm glad to have spent that time actively writing 1,000 articles, rather than more passively, say, watching 1,000 movies or TV programmes. (today's list proves I've only watched 400) ;)

(there are other websites out there that one can spend this amount of time on, with much less to show for it afterwards)

In fact, this index page has been a long time in coming. I've been aware for a while that the only search-devices on here have been the text search-box at the top, and the monthly archives in the side-bar. Not much good for browsing. The milestone of the thousandth post has simply given me the motivation to finally put it together.

For anyone who's interested, I compiled the list by copying and pasting all the hyperlinked titles into an OpenDocument spreadsheet, which allowed me to save them all as html code. Then I simply rearranged them all into order.

Nearly all the 50-odd hits that this blog currently gets each day are for posts from the past, so maybe, just maybe, this will enable casual surfers, be they Bible-Readers or Doctor Who fans, to see what else on here might be of some vague interest.

But still – a thousand? Maybe the time taken to write all that is hard to justify.

The only explanation that I can offer is that I write because, as a writer, I have to.

Is that really such a bad reason?


Fig. 1: In Howick in March 2006, looking forward to celebrating my 1,000th post in three-and-a-bit years' time.