You just have a different relationship with somebody when you’re looking at them than you do when you’re punching away at a keyboard and some symbols come back. I suspect that extending that form of abstract and remote relationship, instead of direct, personal contact, is going to have unpleasant effects on what people are like. It will diminish their humanity.
-Noam Chomsky
…and either a tautology or a contradiction in the title. If it is a public proclamation then that’s a little redundant: a proclamation is a public announcement. Calling it semi-public rather implies that it’s not a proclamation. Still, it’s only “semi-public” because nobody’s listening. My poor, neglected blog is tatty and unused and so I say this, for anyone stumbling past, for anyone who still checks this, and for my 52 followers on Twitter:
By tomorrow morning, I intend to have a new theme and to be ready to start using this blog again.
I am intending to code something minimalist “from scratch” i.e. borrowing various bits of code from past projects and other themes, rather than just modifying someone else’s theme. Even with coffee and discipline I suspect that this may be rather beyond me, but I do at least intend to try.