Wow, it’s been a while, hasn’t it?
I feel I owe my readers (all three of you!) an explanation. The posting here really dropped off to nothing recently, but I want to change that. Here’s what happened before, and what I’m doing about it now:
For most of the life of this site, it was a regular old technology blog, with a particular focus on interface design and an obsession with all things Apple. Then about a year and a half ago, I got into guns. And that made me question my politics. And soon enough, Tech Paladin began to feel a lot more like Gun Paladin as the computer-related posts became scarcer among the emotional rants about how liberals were wrong about guns.
A few months later I moved those posts over to a secondary blog to keep my interests separate, but it became obvious which one I felt more momentary passion for; the gun & politics posts over there outnumbered the tech posts here by five to one or more. When I get involved in something new, it dominates my consciousness for a while, and guns were no exception.
But I wasn’t confident enough in my interest in guns to realize that most people really don’t find it that strange. Fearing that it would upset important people, I deleted that blog in a panic during that nerve-racking time between a promising job interview and the possibility of an offer (I got it and took it, and now I love it).
The gun mania has subsided greatly now that I own a couple and actually know how to shoot them well. And my foray into guns opened up whole new perspectives on things that I hadn’t ever really questioned my stances on before, like politics, economics, law, and philosophy.
And all the while, my passionate obsessions have been cooling to reasonable levels and I’ve been getting back into the tech stuff that so fascinated me. I’ve been finding myself wanting to write more and more about video games, net neutrality, intellectual property, and other meat-and-potatoes tech geek topics.
So I’ve decided to centralize here. On this site, you will soon be able to find tech rants, poetic waxings on my favorite video games, musings on constitutional law, treatises on interface design, explanations of shooting techniques, updates on my progress into UNIX-land, and a generally freedom-oriented Libertarian perspective on current events. I’m also going to start migrating over my older gun- and politics-related posts — or at least, the more coherent, less ranty ones. And maybe I’ll even post some Warhammer 40K stuff as well. If that sounds interesting, then welcome! If not, well, this is the internet, I’m sure you can find something to tickle your funny bone.