Tuesday, December 03, 2002

Moving .. Testing 1, 2, 3 I am now going to try Bill Kearny's radio exporter tool to see if I can get my old weblog entries into my new MT weblog at http://geodog.thebishop.net. If Radio crashes and burns on me, which is always possible, I may not be back. In that case, head over to http://geodog.thebishop.net to find me. Permalink  12:07:31 PM   Google It!  What do you think?  [] comments.

Geodog's New Year's (early) Blogging Resolutions I am going to do my best to minimize political blogging. Over the next two years, there will clearly be enough exploitation of the terrorism threat for political purposes, destruction of civil liberties and the environment, crony capitalism, and transfer of wealth from the middle class to the top 1%, to keep any interested blogger working full time documenting it. It doesn't do me much good to document it unless I can make it change, and it doesn't seem like I can influence it, at least in the short run. Of course, I may not be able to refrain from noting it in passing :-) I'm going to get this blog moved over to Movable Type ASAP. I'm going to do much shorter links, a la Instapundit, and I'm going to try to spend most of my energy on original writing, as opposed to commenting or just linking to the writings of others. I will stop blogging by midnight (already blew that one out of the water). We will see how it goes. Permalink  12:00:47 PM   Google It!  What do you think?  [] comments.

So why has Geodog started blogging again? Given all those good reasons for stopping blogging, why am I starting up again? I like being part of a community that includes people like Cory, Joe, Josh, Jeremy, Phil R, Phil W, Robert, Scott, and Tapped. I have the eerie experience every time I read A Work In Progress of finding my twin in cyberspace. It is very unusual to find somebody with the exact same sensibilities as yourself, and it is even stranger to find them in cyberspace. I like being part of the this community, and to be frank I was flattered by some of the "What happened to your blog I miss it" fan mail that I have received. Blogging is a way for me to keep in touch with what is happening with technology. When I write, I read more and learn more, and isn't learning what it is all apart? I almost got my dream job because I was reading someone else's blog (more later). I like to write, and I'd like to learn how to do a better, faster job of writing. Practicing is the best way that I know to do that. Finally, I find that I usually spend at least an hour every night reading stuff on the net, and I am constantly sending email to friends, relatives and colleagues with fun, scary and serious stuff that I find. Why not blog it? Permalink  11:46:19 AM   Google It!  What do you think?  [] comments.