DeBugging the BUGGERs

Alas but it is true, the BUGGERs have caught a bug, the “lazy to blog” bug. Notice lately there has been much fewer posts here than usual? I didn’t realize what was going on till Daniel mentioned he has caught the blogger laziness bug, that the BUGGERs seem to be experiencing the same symptoms too. Oh no! It seems to be an epidemic! What should we do?!

Prevention is always better than cure, so firstly, here’s how to identify if you are susceptible to catching the “lazy to blog” bug. The more symptoms you identify in yourself, the more safety precautions you would have to take.

1. Everytime you open your offline word processing programme to type out a blog, your hands linger, stationary, poised over the keyboard. After a short while, you just close off the programme and proceed to doing something else instead.
2. You go to Blogger/Wordpress/Xanga etc., notice that it’s taken a while to load, and when it does you don’t feel like typing in your username and password anymore, what more to say blog.
3. You read other blogs or do other things, telling yourself you will find inspiration somewhere, somehow. Then you get distracted by something else and “forget” all about blogging.
4. You write up a draft on your blog, but after that find yourself too “tired” to continue finishing it up and forget about it later on.
5. Before starting to blog, you come up with a wonderful idea for a post, filled with photos and have thought up captions to go along with them. Then, after resizing and editing the 5^th or so photo, you’re too tired to continue, thinking of the long process ahead of uploading photos and typing out the whole post.
6. You go online, telling yourself you will finally post something, but end up at MSN, Friendster, Gmail or the like instead.
7. You start having thoughts like, “Why blog? Nobody reads or comments on them anyway.”
8. You come up with any excuse to avoid blogging, “Nothing going on in my life anyway”, “Too tired”, “Lousy internet connection refuses to cooperate”, “Blog for what? So wu liao.” and etc.
9. Knocked out after work or school, blogging is the last thing on your mind.
10. This one is for the BUGGERs in particular, you log onto Blogger, see that a fellow BUGGER has already posted a wonderfully written post for the day and decide to just leave your post for some other time. Have had this personally happen to me some times.

As with any outbreak of any dangerous viruses, there are guidelines given on how to deal with the situation. So, here goes the safety measures that can be taken, and guidelines on how to survive this dangerous BUG.

1. Imagine the visitor stats counter dropping to 0 visitors a day. Gasp! Motivation enough to blog?
2. Block out any complaints from other people who have The Bug. Do not be influenced to not blog.
3. Blog regularly and make it a habit, build up your blogging stamina, increasing your immunity towards The Bug.
4. Blog offline, where there are less distractions.
5. Do not make excuses for yourself, a Blogger is not a Blogger just because he/she has a blog. Blogs should be blogged in.

And after some discussion in the Undergroundsquare forum, came up with this phrase, “Bugging the BUGGERs to Blog”. One of the admins, Sam, suggested this should be our catchphrase or aim or something. So, that’s what we should do from now on, Bug the BUGGERs to Blog. If any of you BUGGERs should catch The Bug, you shall be Bugged to Blog till you are rid of that awful, nasty Bug.

Now, are you confused enough by the words above, “Bug”, “The Bug”, “Bugging”, “Blog”, “BUGGER”? Haha. That’s a lot of words starting with “B” in a paragraph.