After reading my last post, and then noticing that most of my last half-dozen or so posts all lean in a somewhat negative direction, I’ve decided to officially abandon this blog until further notice. My mother once told me “if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all.” I think she was being somewhat sarcastic at the time, but I also think that there’s some truth to it that’s relevant here. If the only thing I’m going to use this blog for is complaining, then there’s little point to it. You can find any number of complaints elsewhere; there’s no need for me to add to the vast amount of complaining going on in the world these days. The original idea was to use this blog to tell my family and friends what I’m up to, and it’s clearly not serving that purpose since I put much more into email to family and friends than I put here. It’s never been in my nature to keep a diary, despite many attempts at many times throughout my life, and a blog is more or less the same thing, made public. It’s even less in my nature to keep a public diary.
So, it ends here. Sorry if this is a disappointment to anyone. I’m not sure what I’ll do next in the way of a studionebula.com site. I still need to ressurect the old travel blogs and the modular-synthesizer stuff; it’s not that I’ve forgotten about it, I assure you. I’ll probably switch to something that sort of resembles my friend Dan’s site, which has lots of nice photos and interesting content but only occasional changes. In light of security issues with active-content sites (which are not going to magically go away, I’m quite sure) and my own idiosyncracies, such a site is probably better suited to my needs.
I’m not sure what I’ll do for future travel blogs. Maybe I’ll use WordPress, maybe I’ll use Blogger (is it any more secure?), maybe I won’t publish them at all and just mass-email them to people who I know. That’s not a concern for awhile, however.
If you’re interested in keeping tabs on what I’m up to with Audio Damage, Chris’s Analogue Industries site is the official unofficial Audio Damage blog. For information about my CD, go here. For information about my modular synthesizer projects, you’ll have to be patient. For information about my Max/MSP objects and projects, there is none except that I no longer work for Cycling ’74 and no longer use Max/MSP or Pluggo. For any other news about what I’m up to, drop me a note now and then and ask. My email address is [my first name] [at symbol] [this site’s domain].
