Positive Liberty

We’re back. It’s unclear for how long, or under which web host, or under what terms, or whatever.

The many technical difficulties we’ve had for the last two months have to my mind killed most of the value there might have been in this blog’s brand name. Even before the latest extended downtime, we’d lost almost half of our traffic. And, to tell the truth, it got kind of tiresome explaining what I thought would be an easy-to-explain blog name that no one really gets in practice.

In other words, my enthusiasm for the whole project has significantly waned. The site may continue, but I see myself having a much reduced role in it, and certainly I don’t want to be trying, ineffectually, to administer a several-times-refitted blog that seems to cause continual technical problems. I blog because I want to write, not because I want to spend all my of evenings on the phone to tech support or pestering my sysadmin brother-in-law for help. Lately he’s been working long hours, then coming home and trying to get my hobby up and running again, which is totally unfair, even if he says that it’s voluntary, and even if I believe him. I still don’t like it.

There’s good news, however. I’m happy to say that I will be blogging, if not here then certainly at the League of Ordinary Gentlemen, which has kindly taken me on as a permanent contributor. I’d urge you all to follow the link, and to check out what was (at least before I arrived) one of the very best blogs of all time.

Apparently, those who can’t learn from their own mistakes are doomed to repeat them.