While I was away these last couple of weeks, doing many important and productive things (or watching Battlestar Galactica – how did I miss this show until now?), my hosting expired. It occurred to me after I renewed that I probably could have just moved to a free WordPress blog, since I’m a little over the DIY weblog stage at this point, but for now I will be gracing looselogic.com for yet another year.
As happens most every year after shelling out for hosting fees, I started considering what changes I could make around here. I spend a lot of my browsing time obsessively researching random topics. It’s just in my nature to get hooked on on something and to try and delve deeper, as I’m sure it is with a lot of people. If I’m exposed to, or am about to take part in, something new, I tend to dig around and see what I can learn. Hell, when I first grew a beard I actually researched different styles and proper grooming and trimming techniques. Yes, I’m that big of a nerd.
I think I’d like to bring a little more of that back to this weblog. It might add some structure to the process, and I think I’ll end up benefiting more from the studying in the long run. I tend to forget a large part of what I read, but I can still remember that Socrates died in 399 B.C. from writing a short story on the topic over ten years ago in high school. I lose a lot of facts and ideas unless I put them to use somehow, such as writing about them.
I might choose a topic with which I have a superficial understanding, start with a basic introduction, and return with more detail from time to time in follow-up posts. These will be occasional posts, interspersed with the usual nonsense that’s usually here. The idea would be to promote self-learning without boring everyone or myself to death. There’s a infinite number of topics I’d like to learn more about, and this might help drive that.
Of course, there’s a very good chance I’ll forget about this within a week and start posting funny pictures of badgers instead.