Is Backdating Cheating?

I'll admit it. I'm a backdater. In order not to have missing months on my blog, I'll backdate posts to keep things consistent. Sometimes I'll feel guilty about it, because it does feel like I'm cheating, but when I see all those months lined up in a row, one after the other, it gives me such a warm, tingly feeling inside.

That's one of the cool things about blogging. You can post for whatever date you want, not necessarily what the actual date is. The only catch, as I've recently discovered, is that if you have an RSS feed, your entry will still record for the actual date posted. So anyone subscribing to your blog will see the real date of entry in their newsreader. All you can hope is that they're not paying that much attention.

You can't have it all, I guess. At least I can feel good knowing the list of months in my sidebar are complete and gap-free.