To play tricks with time

Did you know that you can blog for the future? Blogger allows you to write up a post, edit the time and date for the future, and the blog will publish your text at that specific time in the future. So I could sit down in one afternoon, make six blog entries and stagger the posting times for the rest of the week. It would then look like I'm posting every day, but, the truth is that some robot is posting days-old messages for me.

The reason I say this isn't because I'm necessarily planning on doing that, per se. But because I changed the time date stamp for each post to read "by Charles Jurries for Month, Date Year" instead of "by Charles Jurries on Month, Date Year." See the difference? By saying a post was written "on" a particular date, it implies that I was, in fact, at a computer that day and typed the post, instead of delegating the posting to a robot. I can correct that, however, by saying that the post was written "for" a certain day. Suddenly the automatic publishing becomes less and less of an issue, and whether or not I'm posting or a robot is posting a week's-old message from me, the post is still intended "for" that day.

For the record, I wrote this post yesterday afternoon.