Self-Indulgent Monster

A few months ago, I added Alex King’s Twitter Tools plugin to this site and thought it was pretty nifty. But I allowed it to turn me into a bit of a slacker. As long as I was micro-blogging and had this plugin to automatically roll tweets into a weekly log, I was able to fool myself into feeling like I was properly grooming my blog. But finally I realized how schizophrenic the one-sided conversations really appeared, and made a minor change to my wp-content/themes/themename/index.php file, from:

to:

And now these automatic posts don’t show up on the main page. This reveals how sparse my real blog posts are, so maybe I’ll be motivated to post updates more often. The weekly micro-blog summaries are still here, and still being created every week and added to the Archives, but they’ll no longer clutter up the main navigation.