I haven’t been posting much here for reasons I can’t quite explain. But as it’s not a commercial adventure and really only a personal space to put down ideas, reflections and other thoughts, I don’t think it matters too much.

Looking through the archives, there’s a lot of stuff here, and I didn’t realise just how much I had written over the years. Some of it is good, and I’d still stand by it, and other posts… perhaps not so much.

But I think that’s what blogging is about. It’s not publishing. It’s not static media like newspapers and magazines, even if the articles don’t generally change (at least mine, as I don’t go back to edit them). Blogging is more of a stream of consciousness than deeply researched and thought-out articles.

So, to get me writing more here, I wanted to try something different, even if it is not that different from what we see on the Internet, or at least the indie web. I’m thinking of writing this more regularly and loosely in the “week note” format.

I haven’t quite found the format yet, so it’ll take time to settle down, I guess. Plus, I might blog the odd post now and again that is outside that format. I’ll see.

My idea is to go over a couple of things that affected me in the previous week and a couple of other links to articles or other things I’ve been doing.

A note on PII. Despite writing here for the entire connected world to see (if they so choose), I’m pretty private, so I’ll unlikely leave too much PII in the articles. Names will be changed, as will places, times, and dates. Particularly where they directly concern me. If I do publish something personal, it’ll most likely be delayed, as I don’t think it is wise to publish live feeds of where you are to the world. Also, while I’m on the topic, you should understand that this site uses no tracking, so I have no idea who, when, or how many times this site has been read. I’m more than OK with this. It was one of the reasons I decided to use the micro.blog platform in the first place.

I’m not sure when I’ll post them either. I write a regular —and longer— article on Sundays, editing and tweaking them on Monday, ready for the email system to post them as a newsletter on Tuesday mornings. So, writing twice the amount on the same day is out of the question. Given my schedule, it leaves my Thursdays a little freer than other days in the week, so I think I will try to post them on Thursday evenings.

This is the first (although not quite the format I will use yet).

I hope I get something out of it, and I hope you do too, so reach out and say hi or reply (⬇). I’d be happy to hear from you.

31 October 2024 — French West Indies