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28/01/2022


2022/01/28#p1

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Flicking through some random posts last night, I was presented with this one discussing the blank page metaphor on which the blog is based.

Things are a bit different now that I'm using (b)log-In (there are discreet posts rather than one item divided into sections) but the idea still stands: each day starts from scratch and the page is empty until I write something.

What caught my attention from the above post, however, was Jon Mitchell's thought about a site "wiping itself out at midnight" so that "there is nothing there if they didn't write anything that day."

The blog is part of the way there but you can always get to previous days and everything is stored in the database. The idea of something truly ephemeral still intrigues me so I wondered what I could do with that.

Meet Thought for the day.

Rather than an ephemeral blog (it's good to be able to view past posts) I thought about creating a 'thought for the day' page that erases itself at midnight ready for a new thought the next day. It cannot be saved or returned to at a future date – it is fleeting, of the moment, and then gone. If I wanted to keep whatever I wrote then I would have to copy it manually. 1

But what to put there?

Absolutely anything, whatever comes to mind: thoughts, ideas, quotes, poems, complete nonsense. It's just a bit of fun.

If there is no thought the page asks you to come back later but I want to get in the habit of updating it each morning (UK time) and seeing where it takes me.

For the time being, you can click on the ☆ in the footer to get there until/unless I think of something better.


  1. That inspired the first thought: "Some ephemeral moments must be given a memory, because the temporality of an instant may radiate a twinkle of eternity." – Erik Pevernagie. 

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