Hi, All. I’m Back for More

Well, it’s the seventh and as promised, I’m going to start posting again. Took me a while to remember how to do everything. I also had to adjust how I do things because I got a new iMac and am still transferring stuff off my laptop to the new machine. So my return post is being posted a bit late and without much editing. Me at my worst.

It’s good to be back even though things will be a bit different. During my brief hiatus, when not trying desperately to breathe during the two weeks in August where temps were in the 90’s with 90% humidity, I did some thinking about the blog and decided to make some changes. Some were internal and not visible on the blog (i.e. adding and subtracting various WordPress plugins) and some were or will be more visible as time goes along. Here’s some of the more visible changes I came up with:

1. I decided to leave the blog theme the same. I tried to experiment with developing my own Wordpress theme and came to the conclusion that I am no graphic designer. To become one would take way more than the month I took off. The theme I’m currently using, though not original, is still nice looking and easier to read with the very minor changes I made to it, so I decided to leave well enough alone.

   As I have time to play some more with graphic design and GimpShop, I’ll come back to the attempt to build my own Wordpress theme in the future. For now…not so much.

2. I did a lot of thinking about my time schedule and posting schedule. I no longer believe the conventional wisdom about posting frequency (that you’ve got to post three to six times a week or you’ll get no audience). This may have been true a couple of years ago, but I don’t think it is today. I believe it’s more important to concentrate on quality posting rather than constant posting.

   The blogs I’m loyal to are not necessarily updated frequently, however, when they are, the writer’s have something important to say and I give them my attention. So I decided to reduce the amount of postings I make to the blog and concentrate more on what I’m saying rather than how often I say it.

3. Finally, because this is more of a personal blog, I decided to keep my posts personal. I’ll be expressing more opinions, and more of the things that pique my interest or grab my attention. These could be cultural commentary, observations on the tech world, or anything else that makes me go “Hmmmm.”

   Don’t worry, I’ll be pretty regular with Freedom Friday posts and Saturday Night Jazz postings (after all ya just gotta have jazz), but I probably won’t post much other than that unless I see something worth blogging about.

So that’s it for now. I’ll be around on Friday’s and Saturday’s and any other time when the mood strikes. If you’re still keeping up with me, I’m glad you’re here. I appreciate your patience as I took some needed “re-evaluation” time off from blogging. I hope the time off will contribute to an improvement in the quality of DAPancost.com. As always your feedback and comments are very much welcome. See ya on Friday.

Picture by flicker user pheezy under Creative Commons License. Use of this picture does not constitute an endorsement by pheezy of the ideas in this post.

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