external monologue

A return to blogging...

Hey.

I think I may just start blogging again.

A number of things have kept me from it for quite some time now. One of those things is the perfectionist in me who doesn't want to blog unless I think my blog setup is perfect. I've just decided to let that one go for the time being. I'm working on a few side projects that may help resolve that issue, but for now, good old (imperfect) "external monologue" will just have to do.

Second is the problem of comment spam. It's such a pain to deal with since you can't leave your blog for five minutes without some schmo-bot trying to hawk cheap pharmaceuticals on it. So, I've made an attempt at fixing that. You'll see it as soon as you try to leave a comment. Hopefully it won't keep you from posting, though you'll have to jump through one more hoop to get your $0.02 online. Deal with it, I say, and let's stick it to the spam-bots. (Yes, I thought about moving over to another service that manages comment-spam for you, but then I'd lose all my good Google rankings and what have you.)

Third is that I haven't been making photographs much lately. But, I've missed blogging enough that I'm going to push on forward with it even though I may not be posting pictures very often. That might hurt readership a bit, but that's never really been that important to me anyway.

That said, I'm back. And here's some good news for your photophiles:

I've discovered flickr... and man is it awesome. If you want to see what few pictures I have taken in the last few months, you can see them there. I purchased a pro account (which I highly recommend) and I'm using it as my new digital archiving system. Here's the links to my stuff:

My photostream, if you just want to jump in and start digging around.

Or, my sets, if you want to see things in a bit more organized fashion.

If you're interested in being able to download larger versions or get prints of anything there, just join flickr and then make me a contact (or friend) and you'll get access.

Alright. Let's not overdo it on the first post. I'm off to bed.

Posted by andy at January 17, 2006 01:42 AM