Three things

One. I have not updated this blog in six years.

Two. Past entries are entertaining and educational, and I am glad I created them. The fact that they have zero comments does not seem to matter to me nearly as much as one might imagine. I was always the intended audience, anyone else would just be the accidental benefactor.

Three. Most photos and many links I linked 6-9 years ago are gone. This is 1)unfortunate, 2)understandable, 3)not something one thinks about while creating a post in the now, 4)almost certainly something others have noticed, given thought to, and solved this issue for themselves. It is almost certainly a good idea to liberally quote relevant portions of the post being referenced — specifically to guard against the post being lost/deleted/altered in the future. And the embedded photos are almost certainly safer being copied to one's own Google drive, but that can't be a good idea copyright-wise. Not to mention it's more work and may take out the fun out of (re)blogging something that one has just learned.

The one thing I still have not learned: how to format paragraphs in published Blogspot posts so that they have half a line space after them. Adding a blank paragraph creates too much blank space. Not inserting a space makes paragraphs stick together.