New journal launched

I’ve been around on the Internet for 15 years now and in that time I’ve run a number of personal websites, starting off from the very basic “about me” type page whilst at university through to a full blog that ran for many years between 2001 and 2008. However, last year I decided that my blogging days had come to an end due to having lost ground to Facebook, which I’m very active on, so I stopped blogging and took my previous site, Stuii Times, off-air.

However, the fact of the matter is that I miss blogging, so I’ve decided to start again with a fresh site using WordPress, which, if you haven’t looked at it recently, is seriously impressive web publishing software. I previously rolled my own blogging software because things like Blogger and WordPress didn’t do what I wanted them to do, but things have moved on since.

Over time I’m going to import a number of old posts from my old blog, but certainly not all of them. Not only are there 1,641 of them, making a full manual import to WordPress impractical, but the other reason why I took Stuii Times down was that I had also decided that some of the posts, especially the older posts, were perhaps not suitable for public display any more given how much my life had changed in the seven years that I blogged. With that borne in mind, my future posts are likely to be less about me and more about the things that I am interested in. I’ve imported all posts from 2008 so far and will work backwards from there.

I’m not making a big song and dance about the launch of this site at the moment, I’m going to give it a “soft launch” and see if it gets any traffic or comments over the next few months. If I like what I see and where it’s going then I’ll tell everyone.

Update 24/06/2009: Unfortunately the first comment I received from a “reader” of the site was quite obviously spam, so I’ve turned on the setting whereby people have to register in order to comment. I didn’t want to do that, but having your first comment as spam isn’t a good omen. Sign of the times, I suppose.