Motus Mentis

Well, the site’s all fixed up; I just spent hours recreating all the old linked-series entries in a new plugin (fortunately I was able to pull all the info I needed from the backend database, though it’s been six years since I’ve had to write any SQL, so it took me a minute to remember how to write the queries).

One thing that was interesting about this task was going back over some of my old posts about mind-body dualism, free will, political theory, and religion. I used to write about those topics often, and my views have changed a lot over the last fifteen years. I’ve been writing here since 2005, and apparently I have written 5,477 posts (5,478 if you count this one). The blog, then, is becoming an extended record of a man growing older, and I hope wiser, as he slides from middle age into geezerhood.

It’s also poignant to see conversations with commenters who are no longer with us, like David Duff, Bob Koepp, and Bill Keezer, as well as some who are still “on the sunny side of the sod”, but who just stopped coming around as the blog became more concerned with political topics.

Ah well — we keep moving forward! Back soon.