Hooray! A crappy slow day during which I achieved nothing at all was somewhat ameliorated by the arrival of the printed version of JujuBlog, compiled for, uploaded to, and ordered from CafePress just thirteen days ago.

I’ve done a couple of other test versions over the last six months, but this is the first one which feels "finished". This time I’m happier with the details, like getting the page numbering right, adding a contents part, putting in those little intro pages before the contents etc. Also I spent quite a while designing the cover.

So if you feel like catching up on JujuBlog and would like to do so away from a computer screen, you can purchase it here. [Update: no longer available]

The Point [of the Book of the Blog]

Digital data, whilst infinitely reproducable, is also inherently disposable. For the same reason that it costs nothing to create an electronic document, it costs nothing to destroy it either. And although I do still have records of my work from more than ten years ago, I honestly can’t be bothered digging through my digital archives [read: old stacks of CDs] to try to find stuff.

Having stuff printed and bound in book form – even if it’s only a single copy for your own reference – means that in ten or twenty years there is a reasonable chance that it might still be lying around your house, for you to pick up spontaneously, flip through and reminisce. Think of how interesting a ten year old magazine can be, and then think of how much less interesting a ten year old article is when published on a web site. There’s still that extra special something about the printed word.