{"id":115,"date":"2012-01-14T21:57:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-14T21:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/2012\/01\/14\/is-it-just-me-or-is-time-passing\/"},"modified":"2016-10-29T05:49:02","modified_gmt":"2016-10-29T05:49:02","slug":"is-it-just-me-or-is-time-passing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/2012\/01\/14\/is-it-just-me-or-is-time-passing\/","title":{"rendered":"Is it just me or is time passing quicker?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Dt“Was that two years ago or 20 years ago?”<\/p>\n

That’s what my cousin asked me when I was raising an anecdote of some kind that had happened to “just a couple of years ago.”<\/p>\n

When I thought about it, I realized that in fact, the event was a lot closer to 20 years ago than two. <\/p>\n

I’m sure it’s a function of getting older. After all, the scope of our memories has grown a lot, and what used to take up a big chunk of our life (like a school year, for example) now passes by in the blink of an eye.<\/p>\n

I’ve come to think of my brain as a vessel that can only hold so much memory. And my long-term memory is pushing my short-term memory right out. That’s a good an explanation as anything else I can come up with for why I can remember what happened to me during my trip to Europe in 1978, but I struggle to remember why I walked into the kitchen just now.<\/p>\n

All of the above is a long-winded way to admit that while its been a long, long time since this blog was updated, I hadn’t actually noticed. <\/p>\n

Today, I’m attending WordCamp Victoria 2012<\/a> and it’s been fun to listen to lots of people talk about why WordPress is important to them and along the way, there’s been a lot of talk about blogging.<\/p>\n

Ironically, The Daily Upload<\/em> is not a WordPress blog. It’s on Blogger, where I started it almost eight years ago. <\/p>\n

But I’ve been doing a lot of work with WordPress over the last year or two and I like it a lot. In fact, I’ve got a new version of davetraynor.com<\/a> in the works. And that’s a good thing, because I first built that site almost 12 years ago – and a lot of the copy there dates from then. Well overdue for an overhaul.<\/p>\n

I started building websites years ago, long before we had content management systems like WordPress, or Drupal, or others. I learned HTML and I still build, maintain and work on old-fashioned “static” sites, like this one<\/a> or this one<\/a>. But now I’ve switched to WordPress builds, like this<\/a>.<\/p>\n

OK\u2026I think I’ve purged enough for today. It feels good to put a post together, and now that I’ve told you about the new website that’s coming, it’s time to stop procrastinating and get it done.<\/p>\n

Thanks for listening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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