It's well past time I should have moved my blog to an on line blog service. I've been doing something like this for more than a few years (four or five) and have long wanted a simple, fast way of doing updates. If it's not simple, it very often doesn't get done. That goes some way toward explaining the ever decreasing number of updates my site has seen over the last year and a half.
It's my hope that creating this new home for my writings will allow me to recapture some of the fun that posting used to be. It is also my hope that interacting with the blogging and blog reading community will fuel my thoughts and keep me tethered to the earth.
My old home can still be viewed at Virtual Planet [link deleted], but I don't expect to add anything to that site if I can get this to work satisfactorily. And I'm pretty optimistic about that.
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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