I don’t have anything insightful or entertaining to write today, but why should that stop me? It’s never stopped me before.
I’m just kicking the tires a bit and figuring out how things work in WordPress. Using a tool like this is a somewhat new experience for me; my previous experiences with things like this have involved writing raw HTML (OK, but not pretty) or various wiki languages (unspeakably horrid).
If you’re still reading, you’re an awfully good sport, and I respect that. Since you’re still here, we might as well take care of a little administrative business and lay out the ground rules for this blog.
I once joked that the best way to keep a secret forever was to write it in your blog. I had a blog for a few years, back in the heady years at the start of the 21st century, and, as far as I could tell, I was my only reader–and not a very faithful one. I’m hoping that this blog will be a little different, and if so, well, we’re going to need some guidelines.
Anyone is free to read my blog or link to it from anywhere. I don’t expect to get slashdotted or anything like that, so don’t fret about the bandwidth you might be soaking up. Go ahead and tell your friends if you like what you see–or tell your enemies, if you don’t.
If you want to write comments on this site about my blog entries, you’ll need to get an account from me first. I will give accounts to people I know and trust to some degree. If I’ve never heard of you, don’t bother asking for an account, and don’t boohoo about it.
Unlike other online forums where people have free-form debates about whatever they like, trading barbs and criticizing opposing viewpoints freely, this blog is all about me. This is my house. I’m remarkably tolerant of opposing viewpoints when politely stated and argued in a spirit of good faith, but little tolerance for assholery. This particularly applies to people who snipe at others. If I feel that you’ve violated the spirit of the site, I will delete the offending posts. If this happens often enough that it becomes a tedious chore, I will delete your account. If you keep showing up on different accounts, I will back-trace you to your ISP and delete those accounts. If that doesn’t work, I’ll punch you in the nose.
Because this is all about me, I will delete posts that I this are off-topic or appear to be made in error (i.e., someone pressed ‘publish’ before they were finished). But I will do this without rancor. No hard feelings.
Finally, this blog will be updated on a schedule that ranges from intermittent to sporadic. Please don’t complain, and don’t send me email asking if I’m OK and telling me that you’re worried about me because I haven’t posted for so long. It’s not that I don’t appreciate your concern, but I ask you to recognize that it’s likely that the better I’m doing, the less frequently I’ll post.
That’s it for now. If there are other rules I think are necessary, I’ll add them later.
