My initial reaction when the weblog finally loaded was, “Oooh, nice design.” I suppose my joys of finding weblogs that take the time to personalize their little havens on the web will never cease. Yes, the design was a little plain: just black and white, but it was stylishly done. So, with a warm glow in my belly, I began to read.
“Tread softly, lest ye drown in the depths of my insanity” is a personal weblog. It is the writings and thoughts of its author, and it would seem there are a lot of thoughts to catalogue. On the front page is one entry, to read more, you must click on the “recent entries” area, or the “footprints in the sand.” So, I read a few entries and I began to see a similar trend in the author’s writing style: he wrote like he was talking to a specific party of people and I was not privy to that party.
The first entry I read began as an anecdote about some sort of scandal, and provided little or no background information and no links or references to earlier entries. Throughout the whole thing, I was asking myself questions like: What scandal? What website did he get this from? What’s going on?
While this was the worst example, when I read other entries, I got the distinct feeling there was some joke and I was missing it.
All-in-all, the author’s writing isn’t engaging, so it was a difficult read for me. That doesn’t mean he didn’t have good things to say; in fact, some of them were witty and amusing, like pointing out cultural differences between the East Indian culture and the Western culture. However, it’s hard to pick out these little gems hidden amongst the author’s otherwise brisk writing style.Tread softly, lest ye drown in the depths of my insanity