A bunch of things conspired to cause me to stop posting here two years ago.<\/p>\n
I was feeling that my entries weren’t coming out the way I wanted them to; the things I was posting always seemed to make better stories in my head than on the page. Which is unusual for me; usually a good story is a good story. But they were feeling flat when I posted them here.<\/p>\n
There were also some technical issues with the blog—various things had stopped working, and I didn’t have the energy to fix them. I finally fixed most of them a few months ago, but various things still looked pretty bad, and I couldn’t figure out why. Tonight I told the system to throw away all the old layout templates and replace them with new ones, and lo! it worked!<\/p>\n
Another concern was that Dobe had told me that every time he posted here, his email spam volume went way up. I was worried about that and didn’t have the energy to figure out what was going on and fix it. (Dobe: on further inspection, I don’t see anywhere on this site where your email address appears. So I may be missing something, but I think the increases in spam volume that you saw may just have been a coincidence.)<\/p>\n
I think there were other factors too, possibly including just general stress.<\/p>\n
But Gabrielle mentioned the blog tonight, and I had been thinking about it anyway, and so I stopped by, and fixing the remaining technical problems turned out to be easier than I’d thought.<\/p>\n
So I’m gonna try posting here semi-regularly again. We’ll see how it goes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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