So Here's Why As you may have noticed, I've just put all of the content back up for this blog. The date stamps should all be accurate, although there may be links which are broken. Why did I take the content down in the first place, you may ask? I suppose I should explain.

It became difficult for me to live with the idea that my words, all those imperfectly formed, hastily written (or conversely, fussed over to the point I lost perspective on their meaning), and perhaps logically and factually wrong words were out there, which at any moment could be read by my friends or complete strangers (Although the liklihood of the latter was more remote, since I don't publish this blog on Blogspot to anyone but my friends). And since editing a blog entry is trivial (I've already edited this one twice), it was difficult to resist repeatedly editing the same piece. This presented two problems. The first was that it was difficult to leave a post alone and call it finished. The other was that, for many posts, even after repeated and obsessive editing, they were still no good. And that became tough to take. And related to that was the fact that what I write is mediocre, so I decided finally that the writing was not worth the toll in paranoia.

But I suppose I'm ready to worry less and just view this forum as a way to communicate with my friends, as well to ruminate-or at least think out loud-about ideas and issues. I'll try to be correct and interesting, but to also not regard posts as formally published things which have to be fussed and fretted over so much.

And the other reasons that I took everything down were that I'm mercurial and inconsistent. These are character flaws that I'm always working on, but sometimes they get the better of me, and so I appear to be doing things for arbitrary reasons. And sometimes it's true. But I will try to leave everything up, write about interesting things, hopefully in an entertaining way, and not spaz out and remove everything every couple of years.  ¶ 21:09