Now that everything is more-or-less set up, I guess I have to start making posts. Very well then. I’ll start with what I’ll be doing differently from now on.

My goal is to post more often. To accomplish this, I will try to make shorter, easily-digestible posts rather than just longer articles. Unfortunately, this could very well mean that the quality of posts will be lower, because I might put less thought into my posts.

I would also like to see about getting some more guest authors to make a few posts here and there.

I used to have an email notification system, but I am leaving that out for now. It was helpful in getting notifications across to forgetful people who might not check the main page periodically. However, we’re in the future now, and RSS and Twitter are better methods of getting updates. If you want email updates, you can use an RSS reader service that sends emails. For now, I don’t want to set that up myself.

The ability to register an account has been removed, as it doesn’t really serve an effective purpose. You might be thinking, “But what about comments? People need to have a verifiable identity for comments!” However, accounts don’t really verify anything at all, other than the fact that a specific email address is able to receive messages, and the same password is being used on every login. This doesn’t really verify anything to a significant degree and is unnecessary, so I disabled it. Additionally, your identity is very likely to be unimportant in constrast to the message that you are sending. If your identity is so important and so relevant that you need it to be verified, an email address and a password is not going to help. Use a cryptographic signature instead, i.e. the clearsign function of GNU Privacy Guard.

Lastly… As you might have (should have?) noticed, there are some very odd-looking (but hopefully awe-inspiring) patterns in the background. You might also be thinking, “Gee, this image sure is taking a while to load. The server must be really slow.” If this is the case, then this may come as a shock to you: the background images are not being downloaded at all. In fact, they are being generated dynamically in your browser using some JavaScript and the HTML5 Canvas element. If you’re interested in how the patterns are generated, they are actually elementary cellular automata.