A new site for an old blog

December 4, 2023

As I come up on a year of publishing Seattle Noise, I remembered my previous attempt at blogging and thought I should try again. Fail Better so says Samuel Beckett. I called my previous blog Overcast Concrete. I used to listen to podcasts and would hear the advertisements for Squarespace and signed up and created a website and published a number of posts, but I never managed to receive much traction and I lost interest after about a year. At the time my job at the airport ate up much of my time.

All this time though I have continued to write, just not in a public way. Keeping up the motivation for blogging is a matter of habit. When you have enough momentum, the writing has a way of happening by itself. I have also been inspired by Ratika Deshpande. She has been writing without too much care with what people think. It is not a novel idea by any means, but her blog speak a distinct voice. What I write has a voice too, but if you don’t make it public then there is no way for others to hear what you have to say.

As far as the technical side of these posts, I am publishing everything here as plain old static HTML pages. Much of the CSS is taken from the NPR plain text site, but there are already a few areas for improvement, such as blockquotes. Perhaps I should find a way to setup a RSS feed, but for the moment it’s not a high priority. Putting some of my writing in public is what is most important, not getting bogged down by minor details.