This end-of-year entry may be strange as it describes things that I’ve been doing for some time now. Not that you don’t know about it either.

Another year comes to an end. The timing to celebrate this is somehat wrong but come May 2011, 無秩序の胃 will be 7 years old. Yikes.

I’ve not been writing as much of late. In fact, I’m guilty of this for the past couple of years. Especially when I moved to this magazine template for the blog last July. Yeah, the one that some of you don’t like due to navigational issues. I agree it does look confusing, so I will do a crash course in how to navigate through 無秩序の胃 in a bit.

I like this template. For one, it allows me to list out my shorter blog entries as snippets in the bottom left quarter of the screen. If you like reading the blog in a linear fashion, there’s always the Arkib button on the top-right beneath the search box. Secondly, it’s so much neater – scrolling down a blog is so 2004, dude. And thirdly, if I like to rejuvenate an older entry, I’d put it in the Featured section – see box in grey on the left.

Back to my lack of updates, I’d have to lay the blame on the other internet goodies that has come up these past few years. Facebook comes to mind, and I’ve been using it since 2007. No longer using the blog as a platform to add random thoughts, we’ve got the Facebook status. To add to the menagerie of internet social networking, I have been tweeting (not twitting) for almost a year now. I’ve to say I don’t tweet as much as regular tweeters (tweeties? twits? heh I give up) but with an iPhone (or any smartphone) tweeting on the go is godsend. But then, Facebook and wordpress have iPhone apps for a while now and updating on the go to these platforms are somewhat commonplace.

And how can I forget about flickr? The joy of interconnecting all these means I can moblog using photos taken on the iPhone by emailing it to flickr which automatically updates my blog. I then have a blog update and have my flickr moblog album updated as well. Nice.

See why there is a dwindling number of posts on this blog?

For a little over the year now, I’ve had another distraction – a blog called SembangKuala which I co-edit with three distant cousins of mine which deals with Perak history and the Perak royal family. Juggling another blog with my own has taken its toll on the frequency of 無秩序の胃 posts. Ahem. Yeah, still not admitting that I’ve gotten a bit lazier, are we?

Seven years on, 無秩序の胃 trundles on in the blogosphere, at a time some would describe that blogs are reaching a state of obsolescence with the advent of these newly-fangled social network sites as well as microblogging platforms. Interlinking the blog with such sites via RSS has in some way kept it alive, though. So, here’s to the next few years!

And now, for the ‘How To Navigate Around 無秩序の胃’ post, click here.