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Blogs as tools for procrastination
By Huw Leslie | December 4, 2006
I am procrastinating right now. I have two essays I should be writing, and I don’t want to write either of them. So I’m blogging.
I have always used blogs as a way of work posponement. I set up Gizbuzz on Blogger partly to avoid revising for my GCSE mocks. When it came around to the real GCSEs, not only did I move Gizbuzz to Wordpress, but I installed Ubuntu Linux on an old laptop, attached it to my network, got LAMP working, set up port forwarding and a static IP address and put Gizbuzz on that.
I’m not sure what it is about blogging which makes it so perfect for procrastination. I suspect that it is something to do with the combination of the technical challenge of setting the blog up in the first place, combined with the escapism of entering the virtual world of the internet, which seems at times strangely disjointed with the world in which most of us live, most of the time. Thus it takes up time, it is interesting and, most importantly, it is utterly irrelevant to the task in hand.
I really need to get on now.
Update: Have now done both essays, 48hrs later. Wow, that was effective procrastination!
Topics: Blogging, Me, Uncategorized |
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