So. December 1st already. How ’bout that?
I’ve decided to attempt to go out of 2011 in the same manner that I began it. To wit, by posting every day for the month of December.
This publishing marathon very nearly began disastrously, as I’ve been trying for several days to get an operating system installed on my laptop, and – until about 15 minutes ago – had been completely unable to do so. I’d go through all of the installation steps, reboot the machine to finish up, and get cryptic error messages or missing displays or (in the case of the current system that I’m using) security errors whenever I tried to launch a browser.
At least for the moment, however, I’m able to see this page long enough actually to get a post written and, one hopes, published.
I’ve also decided that, sometime this month, I’ll launch a new blog to replace this one, which was never really intended to be very public. Google’s continual combination of various things, however (blogger.com, gmail, google+, facebook, etc) has gotten me nervous that I’ll forget to hit a check box somewhere and “Stuff Nobody Reads” will suddenly become common knowledge to about 1200 people instead of the 8 or 9 who currently know about it.
So, as I said, I’ll be starting a new blog – probably on the tumblr.com platform – and will more or less lock this one down and continue to use it as a more personal journal for myself.
I’ve yet to come up with a name for the new blog, but you can rest easy knowing that the title of it will be clever and witty and the content will be topical, hard-hitting, and generally grammatically correct.
If you have suggestions for the new title, please feel free to let me know what those suggestions are.
For right now, though, I’m just going to run a few more software updates on the laptop (I’ve settled on Fedora 12 for the OS if you’re wondering), try to get it to reboot successfully, and then go to sleep. The year may have gone by very quickly, but this week is dragging by slower than a very slow thing.
TWD