This is a post that I really didn't want to write, but I'm now trying to look at it a bit longer term and remain positive about it. I'm putting NWW on hiatus, probably until the end of Lent (that would be Easter). It's been very apparent to me, and probably to any long term readers that I have, that my interests have been elsewhere of late. I had hoped to make it until my second blogging anniversary in August but it's only early February now and I can see that that isn't going to happen. I'm not pulling the plug on the site but taking a much longer break than I have allowed myself to take thus far. It's possible I'll wind it down then but that is not my intent. Maybe by then I'll have some new books under my belt to share, and the editor's block that has been my nemesis for a while now will be in retreat. I hope so, anyway.
My move to Mac has been very happy except for two issues - gaming and blogging. For websurfing and multimedia, a Mac is of course a terrific machine. Games on the Mac platform are often ports of games made for the larger PC market and that means a Mac gamer will have to wait for the port. I'm not a heavy gamer by any means but I am very happy that the Mac port of Civilization 4 is finally here. Well, my copy isn't here quite yet - but it has been ordered and ought to be here soon. The blogging issue is more complicated. I'm not fond of writing my posts in a browser window. This goes back to when I was first blogging and I lost one or two large posts into the ether. After that I moved to w.bloggar - a great little app that let me compose on my desktop and then click send when all was said and done. I have not been able to recreate that experience on my Mac, and not for a lack of trying! I looked at Marsedit , but that forces you to compse while staring at a bunch of HMT...
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