This inaugural post says nothing in particular. Instead, it’s a test to see how the system functions, what cosmetic and structural changes need to be made, etc.<\/p>\n
ETA (6 October 2007):<\/b> This, believe it or not, is the first “official” post on this blog.<\/p>\n
The posts prior to this? At one time I thought it would be neat and nifty to go back through old e-mails I’d sent out and clean them up as retrospective posts.<\/p>\n
There’s one catch, however. I wrote a hell<\/i> of a lot of e-mails about Star Trek<\/i> and Doctor Who<\/i>. Not<\/i> a lot of e-mails about what the hell I was doing.<\/p>\n
“The Psi Phi Project” posts are taken from posts I’d made on the Psi Phi Star Trek<\/i> Books Bulletin Board. The timestamps on those posts are accurate. They’re specifically about what was going on in Star Trek<\/i> fiction at the time. With sidelights on other things relating to Star Trek<\/i> fiction.<\/p>\n
Other prior posts were taken from Keith DeCandido’s newsgroup, back in the days when he had his own newsgroup.<\/p>\n
The 9\/11 post was a melange of posts and e-mails from a variety of sources. If Christopher Tolkien could edit The Silmarillion<\/i> together from a disparate set of papers that spanned his father’s sixty year writing career, I could edit together a post on 9\/11 from what I’d said on the subject in other places.<\/p>\n
So, that’s what came before.<\/p>\n
What comes after?<\/p>\n
The first “content” post I made was on finding a Philip K. Dick book at Wal-Mart. At the time, I had no idea why<\/i> I had a blog. It seemed like a good thing to do for my writing career.<\/p>\n
The blog was not heavily trafficked in its early days. The blogging software I used — Greymatter — was not at all<\/i> easy to work with. When I upgraded to WordPress<\/a> two years later, posting became far<\/i> more frequent. There’s a lesson in this; your choice of software does<\/i> make a difference in your productivity. If you make it easy for someone to do something, they’ll do it. If you make it tough, they won’t. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n To this day I don’t know why I have a blog. I’m a bit scattershot in my topics, yet I think that’s the strength of this blog. It’s really a case of whatever it is I have on my mind, within limits. I keep a lot of things private and personal, and I try not to involve third parties to the extent that I can.<\/p>\n All of that said, this<\/i> post is where it all began. All three hundred thousand words (as of this writing). Tempus fugit<\/i>. :cheers:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This inaugural post says nothing in particular. Instead, it’s a test to see how the system functions, what cosmetic and structural changes need to be made, etc. ETA (6 October 2007): This, believe it or not, is the first “official” post on this blog. The posts prior to this? At one time I thought itContinue reading “First tests”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4095],"tags":[351,4096],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wordpress","tag-meta","tag-wordpress","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}