Like those wacky Europeans, it looks like I involuntarily took the month of August off from my duties here. I thoroughly apologize and look to remedy this situation soon.
Thx, the Mgmt.
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I've gone and back and forth on the usefulness of comments on a site. While some will tell you they increase the sense of community for the readers and foster lively debates, they must not have read the comments on 98% of the sites I personally frequent. There are some sites which do have rich communities of commenters which add depth and personal experience to the articles, but there are many, many more which end up being a sea of "first posts" and "fanboi" accusations.
By not enabling comments on this site, I am not trying to stifle responses to my missives, but encouraging them to be contained in other forums. Write your own blog pointing out my numerous factual errors and slippery slopes. Email me your spelling corrections and mischaracterizations of numbers. Twitter me your numerous death threats until admit the tacit usefulness of online office suites. Learn semaphore to signal me when I can't see the forest for the trees. However you want to relay the information to me, I welcome it. I will not, however, police a comment section, filtering out spam for online medications and great deals from deposed Nigerian leaders.
Of course, with no one reading this blog, there is also no one to comment on it.
I've gone back and forth about starting a blog. What audience am I writing for? Do I really expect anyone to read this? Do I care? Well, I guess I care enough to write this and don't care if anyone actually finds it. So I think I will make an effort to start a blog and update it semi-regularly (weekly/biweekly?), and this time I mean it.
The number of non-news stories in the past couple weeks have made me rethink starting a blog. I had started a blog for a previous project and enjoyed thinking about subjects to write about and drafting posts. As the project began to sputter on its own, posts stayed in draft form and failed to be posted. At the time, I had set up an alternate blog for subjects that I wanted to write about, but thought may be best left unassociated with the new business. Well, I guess the alternate blog will now be the one and only blog.
I expect the overall theme of the blog to be varied and scattershot, much like my own thoughts, but heavily skewed towards technology and food, much like my own thoughts. Sometimes, instead of knowing where you are going to end up, you just have to go. I'm not sure where this is going to take us, but I hope it is interesting along the way.
