Again? What is up with this guy? Why on earth does his blog keep moving?

Well, because it seems like a good idea. Actually, even though the blog hasn't moved very far this time, and despite it still being built with RapidWeaver, this is probably the most significant change since I started blogging back in whenever-it-was. One of the things I've always done in the past is rebuild all of the old content because I wanted the blog to be as comprehensive as possible. So whenever I moved the blog everything needed to be taken along. But this time the principle motivation was the opposite: I wanted to start again from scratch—I really liked the idea of abandoning all the 'legacy' content and procedures that I've built up over the years. If I started from nothing, what would happen?

Take the photography, for instance. Although I was very pleased with the way it was integrated into the old blog, it wasn't really very efficient. The last photo post I made took about a month before I could be bothered to spend the time to sort it out. Finding a more efficient method—say, switching entirely to Flickr, as I'm planning to do now—would also entail going through all the old photos and organising them. But if I just draw a line between old blog and new blog, I can find a new solution and not worry about how that affects all of the earlier content.

One reason for the change taking place now is that, after ten years living in Jena, I (effectively) moved to Magdeburg to take up a position teaching at the university at the start of October. Bearing that in mind, I've backdated all the posts—and tweets—I've made since then. Appropriately enough, the first tweet I made back in October sums the whole thing up neatly.

A new leaf.
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