The Playful Antiquarian

A quiet blog is not an abandoned blog

October 13th, 2004

I am still here, but I am working quietly in the background.

Soon, I will transform this weblog into a more serious, academic space and transfer my quirkier, off-topic posts to The Playful Antiquarian. As part of this process, I will delete many of the posts here, but I will try to keep most of the posts linked to by others, as well as posts with comments.

At the moment, I have turned off the comment feature and blocked new discussion group comments. Comment spam was becoming a nuisance, and deleting unsolicited, unwarranted, and nonsensical ads from my weblog (and the inbox of the e-mail account that receives this weblog’s comment notifications) was not a good use of my time. More importantly, it was quite depressing, like the junk mail that masquerades as a birthday card or happy greeting or the telemarketer call that catches you when you are in need of encouraging words from a friend. So very sad …

Many apologies to any readers wishing to leave comments. I promise to restore comments as soon as possible. Thanks for your patience.

Entry Filed under: Administrative Matters