Poor blog. I used to write here a lot more often. Now, you're mainly just a travelogue with very sporadic posts in between trips. I blame Facebook. Because it's fun to blame Facebook these days. I never wrote in you for the internet at large, even though you're freely available to the world, I write for my friends to read. And, frankly, I think I had more people read things that I write when I do it on Facebook than I ever had here. I'm still keeping you around. For one, I'm too in love with the domain name. Also, I don't expect Facebook to stop shooting itself in the foot, and think it just still may become the Friendster/Orkut/Myspace of this decade. Also, I own this place. This is my domain, my content, and it won't change until and unless I change it. I have a real love/hate relationship with Facebook these days. It's great for keeping in touch with casual acquaintances, old friends, and out-of-town friends. But, man, they've been drinking from the fountain of evil a bit too much these days. This is hardly new, but a good diagram of what's going wrong there. And the default settings are so wrong. Sure, a 15 year-old probably doesn't care a whole lot what the world knows about him, but I'm (significantly) older, a homeowner, a professional... it's just not the same. The broadcast nature of Facebook is nice, but only if I can broadcast to people of my choosing. This is one reason I can't bond with Twitter. That, and hardly anyone I'm interested in following is using it. I mainly follow a handful of celebrities who make me laugh, and businesses who I want to follow but don't use Facebook enough. Maybe Diaspora when it becomes real, if enough people jump over. So, poor neglected blog, I still love you. I'll make a token post or two. I also have a trip coming up, so there's that whole Travelogue thing. Oh, I also export you to Facebook. I know it doesn't affect you, I just thought you should know.