Maybe I’m just getting lazy. Maybe a change is as good as a rest. Maybe, indeed, I’m hoping to attract people to my syndication feed with actual content. The reason may in fact be irrelevant, but the results aren’t: I’ve switched from a summary to a full-text syndication feed setting. This will make certain people happy, and will probably bewilder a few others.

It saves me the trouble of trying to come up with a clever and witty summary description for each post, though, and anything that makes writing in my journal easier is to be embraced without delay. This poor site has been neglected long enough as it is, wouldn’t you agree?

In other news, I’ve added links to my LiveJournal and my Vox page down there in the “My…” section on the left. Feel free to peruse them and amuse yourself with what I get up to when I’m not writing here for a change. If you’re on LJ at all, and are interested in instant messaging, you should definitely read this entry at the very least.

I think I’m starting to crawl, slowly, out of the emotional hole I’ve lived in for the last few months. Maybe this means I’ll start writing more, as this week’s output might suggest. One can hope, yes?

One of those “buzzwords” we’ve learned to live with over the years is “24×7” (aka 24/7) which, of course, indicates twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. I’ve never really liked this term, but that’s just a personal quirk. There’s nothing inherently wrong with it.

I’ve bumped into an expansion of that term that bothers me a fair bit, though. It’s cheesy, and what’s worse is that it doesn’t even make sense. If 24 is the number of hours in the day, and 7 is the number of days in the week, if you want to expand that logic then you’d have to use the number of weeks in the year, right? So where does “24×7×365” come from? Last time I checked, there aren’t over three hundred weeks in a given year. By all rights it should be “24×7×52,” and even then I wouldn’t exactly be happy with it… but it wouldn’t make me quite so actively unhappy.

I can hardly expect any sort of widespread, meaningful change just because some random nutjob on the Internet has pointed out the inherent absurdity in play. Complaining about it provides some amusement value, though.