01 Jul 2021 » 2 min read about Blog & Site Meta
This past weekend, I moved the hosting of this site to WordPress, and in the days since, I have been delighted with the results. The WordPress Happiness Engineers (especially Paul Jacobson) did an outstanding job of making this a smoother migration than I could possibly have imagined. With this migration, I wanted to point out…
29 Jun 2021 » 6 min read about Blog & Site Meta
I set a goal of moving my blog from a self-hosted WordPress install to one that was hosted by WordPress. My thought was that I would start planning the migration now, being the careful, step-by-step person that I am, and then execute the migration over the summer, doing my best to make it as seamless…
27 Jun 2021 » 1 min read about Blog & Site Meta
I know I said that this site transfer and update would happen over the next couple of week, but it turns out this was much easier than expected. (It also helped that I had a WordPress expert giving me advice along the way!) The transfer is completed, and the new theme is in place. There…
27 Jun 2021 » 2 min read about Blog & Site Meta
I have been self-managing this blog for nearly 12 years now. I enjoy writing here and interacting with everyone, but not so much the work that goes into keeping the site up-and-running. So, over the next few weeks, I will be transferring this site to a WordPress.com-managed site. I am doing this for several reasons:…
13 Jun 2021 » 1 min read about Blog & Site Meta
I decided to take the day off the blog today. I think the whole family is in need of a lazy Sunday. I’ll be back tomorrow with your regularly scheduled program. Today I’ve giving my brain a little bit of a rest.
25 May 2021 » 1 min read about Blog & Site Meta
My idea file for the blog has been running low lately and I haven’t had much time to fill it back up. I do plan on refilling it–sending off to Schenectady a la Harlan Ellison for batch of ideas. In the meantime, I thought I’d put a call for suggestions out to my wonderful readers…
05 Feb 2021 » 1 min read about Blog & Site Meta
I have been eager to write more about the cool stuff I am doing with Obsidian. At the same time, I don’t want this blog to return to the strictly “how-I-do-stuff” theme that it fell into back in my Evernote ambassador days. Nor do I want to indundate people with post after post about what…
03 Feb 2021 » 1 min read about Blog & Site Meta
Back in December I mentioned how my writing on the blog over the last few years had been decreasing, and that I missed sitting down to write here. I was determined to do better than the 51 posts I wrote in 2020. I noticed today that I am on track to do just that. For…
05 Jan 2021 » 2 min read about Blog & Site Meta
Because the requests keep coming here is my annual reminder on my guest post policy. I’ll keep it simple and make it red just to call it out: If I didn’t ask you specifically for a guest post, you can safely assume that I don’t want one from you. Put another way: If you have…
01 Jan 2021 » 2 min read about Blog & Site Meta
I published 51 blog posts in 2020, not quite a low water mark for me (that was 2018), but nothing like my heyday here on the blog. In 2012, for instance, I published 567 posts, and in 2013 I published 482 posts. I miss those days. In recent years, I have been more selective in…
10 Jun 2020 » 2 min read about Blog & Site Meta
I know I said that I wasn’t going to provide updates about my progress in this final attempt at writing this particular story I’ve been trying to tackle. But I figured it was worth mentioning that last night, I hit the 10,000 word mark. Considering everything else I’ve got going on, writing 10,000 words in…
13 Jan 2020 » 2 min read about Blog & Site Meta
For years I have had a set of site policies about things like guest posts and advertising (tl;dr: I don’t accept unsolicited guest posts or any advertising). Occasionally, I post a reminder, but I still get requests. The one I got today deserves to be shared because (1) it shows where automation/AI can fail, and…