Welcome! Come on in. Take a load off. Just kick that stuff out of the way. I created this space in 2005 and have been blogging fairly regularly ever since.
I’ve written more than 7,300 posts spanning about 20 years. That is just about 1 post per day everyday over that 20 year span on average! What’s more, I do not allow paid advertising of any kind. This is a labor of love, and thankfully, I love doing it.
At its peak this blog had over 120,000 views per month, or just about 4,000 a day, which seems remarkable since I generally write about whatever is on my mind. Just about 1.8 million people have seen the blog, totaling about 3.7 million views. I’m not Google or Wired, but I’d say these are pretty respectable numbers.
So what is this blog about? As I said, I tend to write about whatever is on my mind. Over the years, “what is on my mind” seems to have coalesced into the categories listed toward the bottom of the page. If you are looking for a place to start, might I suggest my curated index to the blog?
I don’t accept unsolicited guest posts, advertising, link swapping, or anything like that. This is my hobby. I want to write the posts, and I want my readers to enjoy them without annoying advertisements. See my site policies for more information.
Finding things on the blog
With more than 7,000 posts, the easiest way to find something is to use the search feature. This uses Jetpack’s powerful search capability and should do for most searches.
As of September 2025, I am revamping the taxonomy of the blog. In the new taxonomy:
- Categories provide a subject area (e.g., Reading & Books, Technology & Gadgets, etc.)
- Tags describe the type of post (e.g., essay, list, how-to, etc.)
See that bucket of 3,762 uncategorized posts? That is what I am tackling now. So expect the list below to shrink over the next few months.
- announcements (16)
- approaching-40 (37)
- articles (4)
- Automatic (3)
- awards (15)
- Blog & Site Meta (263)
- Chromebook (2)
- comics (10)
- crosspost (4)
- episodes (40)
- Evernote (205)
- extras (6)
- FitBit (17)
- Fitness & Health (257)
- goals (11)
- GPS (2)
- Grab Bag Posts (21)
- history (6)
- interesting-reads (5)
- interviews (1)
- iPad (20)
- kindle (9)
- Lab Book for a Novel (8)
- lists (15)
- magazines (20)
- music (39)
- Music & Arts (85)
- Nikon (1)
- notebooks (3)
- Personal & Family (856)
- personal automation (40)
- policies (7)
- productivity (5)
- Productivity & Tools (34)
- Reading & Books (819)
- Reading Posts (45)
- Reading&Books (3)
- reference (6)
- retro-posts (18)
- reviews (46)
- science (20)
- Science Fiction (86)
- scrivener (3)
- shelf-life (9)
- short fiction (15)
- social networking (34)
- Sports (150)
- story sales (10)
- tech (10)
- Technology & Gadgets (298)
- Travel (259)
- Uncategorized (1,996)
- Weekly Playbook (5)
- Work & Career (238)
- Writing & Publishing (705)
- Writing Posts (15)