Tomorrow is oook blog’s fifth<\/b> anniversary, and what a long strange trip it’s been. Dunno how to assess the blog’s significance<\/i>, since I have a constitutional aversion to conventional measures of “success” and I abhor counting hits or whatever. When you come right down to it, I’ve always thought of it primarily<\/b> as a means to keep track of my changing attention (my magpie habits) for myself, and secondarily<\/b> as a conduit for keeping informed of my doings the 20 or so people I think might be interested. Beyond that, I’m happy to occasionally discover that somebody has happened upon a posting via a search, or that some friend has pointed somebody to a posting.<\/p>\n
I’m thinking about converting over to Word Press, but I don’t have sufficient faith in my own geek skills to start the process. I’ve also thought of making some sort of Fundamental Change in presentation style or content, but I don’t really have any positive reason to do that… so I think it’ll probably just limp along in its increasingly vieux jeu<\/i> format.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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