Does anyone remember Hamlet, the guy from Shakespeare, who asked the question, “to be or not to be?”
Well how about an update on that speech. when I started blogging I found myself asking the same question!
Here it is – with apologies to old Will, of course!
To Blog or not to Blog
That is the question.
Whether it is nobler in the mind
To suffer the ignominy of obscurity
or to fight for space amid a sea of websites
And by logging in, join them?
To log off, to sleep,
No more: and by a sleep to say we end
The heartache and the thousand natural hits our site is heir to.
Tis a situation devoutly to be wished!
To switch off, to sleep,
To sleep, perchance to scheme,
Ah, there’s the bug!
For in that switched -off state what bugs may come
When we have shutted off our portals coil
makes us pause….
There’s respect
that causes damage from so long a log-in.
For who would bear the hits and scorns on-line
the scammers wrongs, the hackers nerve
The pangs of an ignored blog
The server’s delay,
The wickedness of “Office”
and the spurns the newbie takes
when he himself his website makes
and bares his soul with a bare log pin?
Who would tools use
to grunt and sweat under weary webpage
But that the dread of something after death, the
undiscovered webzone
from whose search no surfer returns
boggles the mind
and makes us rather bear those hosts we know
than fly to others we know not of.
Thus conscience makes cowards of us all……..
And artists of great myth and message
with this mind their images cease to post
and lose the domain of action.
…………………..with apologies to Shakespeare…………………………………………..from Hamlet’s Speech, “To be or not to be”
