Welcome to my new(ish) Blog!
Looking back over this blog and all of it's posts I realized that I have had this blog since before 2011! Can you believe it? I have had this for over 13 years now!
I had a blog over at wordpress.com and I was going to reboot that one but they have managed to gum up the works so bad that I am not sure how to operate it. So, now that I am a point in my life where I want things to be simple I have decided to start using this one and see where it goes.
I say that I have decided but, for those that know me, I may change my mind here in a couple of weeks and find some other platform to use. But to tell the truth I kind of doubt there is any platform out there that will be as easy to use as this one.
You see I want things to be so simple that all I have to do is send an email and have the platform do all the work. WordPress has borked their post by email function so bad that it is barely even usable.
Now as Google has a long history of fouling things up and deleting stuff who knows how long this platform will last.
Purpose
I believe that the (anti)social media platforms (you know the ones that I am thinking of) have turned the internet into a cesspool of rancor and divisiveness. I can hardly stand to participate in that world anymore.
On the internet of old everyone had a website of their own where they could publish whatever they wanted. It was democratic free speech at it's best. They commented and talked to one another via email and they followed each other via RSS. It was free, open, and democratic.
This blog is my small contribution to going back to those days.
Yes, I like Email
Email might just be the single greatest internet thing out there. I understand spam battles and how a lot of people spend their working lives reading email and don't really want to do it in their free time.
But, you know what, EVERYONE has email. By using email you are immediately in contact with over half of the world's population. It is simple to use, everyone has it, and it is federated.
I don't much care for text messages, Slack, or IRC, Whatsapp, or any other dang thing out there. Email is more than sufficient to do everything that I need.
It's Google, I know
Yes I know it's Google. I know that Google is part of the evil empire. I know, believe me. I have written 4000 word essays against Google.
But...
I want things from here on in to be easy. I am too dang tired to work my butt off to make a blogpost or to set up an email server. I want the dang computers to work for me not me for them.
Besides, Gmail has wonderful spam protection. It even questions if emails from my mother are spam.
And, because of the nature of this blog I doubt that a guy like me is any danger of the various nefarious activities of Google.
So there it is. Add me to your RSS feed reader and send me comments via email.
P.S.
I blocked comments on this blog for the simple reason that I don't want to give a platform to people who have an ax to grind with any little thing that is said.
