I’ve been doing a little reflecting on blogging as I decided to resurrect this site.<\/p>\n
Things have changed during the three years that I was on vacation.\u00a0 For many years I stuck with the Movable Type platform, even after its slide out of public favor.\u00a0 Now it has apparently quit free licensing for individual bloggers, so I finally jumped ship to WordPress.<\/p>\n
Once you get past the technical installation hurdles, it’s pretty easy to get a blog up and running with WordPress.\u00a0 Pick a theme for your site, add some plugins, and you’re ready to go.\u00a0 I kind of miss tinkering with my own “theme” that I did in the old days.\u00a0 Maybe I’ll do some of that later.<\/p>\n
Speaking of layout, the trend has been toward a less cluttered look with more emphasis on content.\u00a0 The blogroll appears to be losing favor.\u00a0 The default font with this theme is large–possibly too much so.<\/p>\n
I reviewed some of my earlier posts.\u00a0 Many of them were political musings.\u00a0 I’m still interested in politics, and do discuss them on forums and elsewhere.\u00a0 But I don’t feel as compelled to blog about that now as I once did.<\/p>\n
These days I’m reflecting more on other things: life, love, learning, meaning, purpose.\u00a0 I don’t know the extent to which I can convey those thoughts into writing, but I may shift more in that direction.\u00a0 We’ll see.<\/p>\n
Several years ago I interacted with another blogger, Say Uncle<\/a>, on a local site.\u00a0 I haven’t “seen” him in a long time, but one saying he used has stuck with me since:<\/p>\n I do this to entertain me, not you.<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n