With Twitter rapidly going downhill — many people’s main want from the platform was fewer nazis, whereas the new plan seems to be bring back more nazis — some people have suggested a return to a more balkanized social media where people maintain their own sites. And I thought to myself, “Why not? I have a website, where I post things sometimes, people even read it occasionally. Why shouldn’t I just run my own blog?”

Well, one answer is that I am not very good at computers. And indeed, after the site hack of my GodToVerse.com site a few months ago, and then the avalanche of spam comments the other month, and then another recent security warning, WordPress warned me I should immediately update my site, and so I clicked the update button and it seems to have eaten my website. The blogposts are still here, but my whole layout and links to my books and columns and so forth are all disappeared.

So in the coming months I’ll be trying to fix that, but meanwhile, I can appreciate having someone else in charge of my social media hub. Perhaps I can convince all my friends to migrate to Dreamwidth? Yeah, I didn’t think so. Anyway, here’s a recent column of mine that rates a look, gamewise I’ve been playing Fallout 4, and I hope people have a pleasant and safe holiday season.