Underachievement Unlocked

My life: a lot of potential and very little realization.

Very few posts on this blog, as well. But you might find some entertaining stuff if you go back a few years in the archives.

I've got money on my bank account. From a check I expected, but don't remember receiving and cashing in. Am I actually going insane?

# 2008-04-29 01:13:44 – via Twitter

Maybe I need to move to a warm, sunny beach after all. The weather has way too much influence on my morale and productivity.

# 2008-04-27 23:00:57 – via Twitter

I could learn Objective-C or drawing or singing or anything remotely useful, but instead I've decided I want to speak Japanese. Kill me now.

# 2008-04-26 17:39:50 – via Twitter

Garoo Network — version 1880.0

Because separate designs were unmanageable; and it’s all the same blog spread and sliced over different topics, so they might as well really share the layout.

Some backgrounds are semi-temporary, and I have to re/do a presentation page (which will be linked in the top menu of garoo.net), the unread mail / current iTunes track displays (in a Dock on ff00aa.com — that’s why the current header looks so empty) and the personal diary, which will only be available in RSS.

I know, it used to be prettier, but now it’s more functional.

# 2008-04-23 18:21:17

Live chat on #wwwgaroonet

More information on #FF00AA.

# 2008-04-19 18:07:28

Eating makes you fat, drinking and fucking make you sick, thinking makes you depressed… ever doubt that nature wants us to be worker ants?

# 2008-04-18 00:08:00 – via Twitter

Non, non, non, je ne suis pas en train de comparer ma vie à une chanson de Mylène Farmer, c'est pas possible.

# 2008-04-01 14:50:17 – via Twitter

Généraaaaation désenchantéééééée. C'est marrant, j'aimais cette chanson bien avant de réaliser que ce serait l'histoire de ma vie.

# 2008-04-01 14:50:06 – via Twitter

Garoo Network 2.0

Yeah, the Garoo doesn’t know what it wants. A few months ago, I closed all my ancillary blogs, because I thought my postings were too diluted, and I wasn’t writing very regularly and it was such a mess to maintain a dozen blogs at the same time; today, and now that the few readers I had on #FF00AA and Beware The Frog have definitively left the building and nobody cares what I do anymore, I’m reopening all the sites (a good thing I renewed the domains just in case — both out of nostalgia and because unique domain names are becoming the most precious merchandise of the 21st century).

The reason I’m reopening my blog network is that having to publish everything on garoo.net was paralyzing me: every time a news article or an image captured my attention for ten seconds (which is pretty rare, statistically), I asked myself: “Can that be of interest to people who read garoo.net?” And the answer was always “No,” so I ended up posting a link only one tenth of the time, just so I could tell myself the blog wasn’t completely dead. But, if you replace “garoo.net” with “#FF00AA” or “Beware The Frog” in the question, the threshold to publication is much, much lower.

Now what’s to say I’m not going to close all the Garoo Network blogs again in two months? Well, nothing. That’s how blogs work, anyway. But I’ve changed the odds: instead of having a database and a set of PHP scripts per blog (only the Regarde tumblelogs shared a code base; I’m not that big at factoring), this time everything’s using the same base as my personal blog — so I get to use the same shortcuts to publish a link or photo in a couple clicks.

If you’ve subscribed to the garoo.net RSS feed, you’ll get an entry each day summarizing everything I’ve posted on the other blogs, just like I already aggregate all my Twitter entries; if you want to subscribe directly to a specific blog whose topic you’re interested in, just go to the site and click the RSS button. (If there’s no RSS button, then you’re using a prehistoric browser and you should update. But is there anyone using an RSS aggregator yet running IE6?) The old thematic RSS feeds should redirect smoothly to the new addresses.

By the way, what is the Garoo Network?