I’ve been doing a little reflecting on blogging as I decided to resurrect this site.
Things have changed during the three years that I was on vacation. For many years I stuck with the Movable Type platform, even after its slide out of public favor. Now it has apparently quit free licensing for individual bloggers, so I finally jumped ship to WordPress.
Once you get past the technical installation hurdles, it’s pretty easy to get a blog up and running with WordPress. Pick a theme for your site, add some plugins, and you’re ready to go. I kind of miss tinkering with my own “theme” that I did in the old days. Maybe I’ll do some of that later.
Speaking of layout, the trend has been toward a less cluttered look with more emphasis on content. The blogroll appears to be losing favor. The default font with this theme is large–possibly too much so.
I reviewed some of my earlier posts. Many of them were political musings. I’m still interested in politics, and do discuss them on forums and elsewhere. But I don’t feel as compelled to blog about that now as I once did.
These days I’m reflecting more on other things: life, love, learning, meaning, purpose. I don’t know the extent to which I can convey those thoughts into writing, but I may shift more in that direction. We’ll see.
Several years ago I interacted with another blogger, Say Uncle, on a local site. I haven’t “seen” him in a long time, but one saying he used has stuck with me since:
I do this to entertain me, not you.
That sounds a bit narcissistic, but the point is clear–if you’re not blogging about something you find interesting, why bother?