The Prodigal Sun Returns (?)

Well, hello. To those who know, and those who are about to know, I've been absent for a while.

Me, today.  Yeah, I know.  It's been a time.... a whole thing.

I used to blog here pretty regularly, and then I bought a house, and set up my own WordPress instance at home, and really leaned into the whole self-hosting thing... then, I got a virtual server and move my WordPress instance there... and that actually turned out to be a pain... I may try it again some time with a different provider. Who knows? ..and then I started using Facebook. It became my primary social media thing... I tried Twitter, but it never really did what I wanted, and I never really felt like I belonged there. Facebook was good for a while. It's become a cesspool. I plan to retain a presence on Facebook, but I really have learned to loathe Meta (the parent company of Facebook), and have found Facebook as an entity to be intrusive and belligerent. Facebook as software is maddening.

So, I return now, to the place where I began. Yes, I know Blogger is a Google, and Google has given up on "Don't Be Evil"... so... I don't know... Maybe I can trust it... Maybe I can't. My intention is to write offline, save locally, then paste into Blogger... So I keep my receipts, and if Blogger ends, I still have my writings.

A while back I started a new blog here to share my progress on various technology projects... my RIBBBIT65 computer, and my RMVOD server (GitHub repo here), for now. I was pleased to see that Blogger had retained all my old stuff from almost 15 years ago and beyond.

I'm on Mastodon, if you're interested, at https://mastodon.social/@TaoBear.

My plan for the time being is to write/post here, and point to here from FB and Mastodon.

To all my FB friends, I'm not going away. I'm just not going to be around as much. FB has become a very frustrating environment to me, and I've reached a point where I can do without the drama. I'll pop in now and again, but I'm not going to be one of those "always on" people.