I wanted to (I still want to, but I have other things to take care of.) keep track of announcements like that and work on developing a hypothesis about why we are so faddish in our diets and our health reporting. Why we can’t just accept the obvious: get some exercise, whole grains, produce, enjoy life in the process. We actually know that processed food, saturated fat, excesses in general aren’t so hot. We kind of know that plastic probably isn’t so good for us. But we’re suckers for advertising, for cheap shit, for gluttony, so we eat crap, drive everywhere and then look for studies to confirm that changing our lives in this way or that won’t actually have an impact.

It turns out, though, that I have a lot more to say about computers and my geekier friends are really able to help me work through puzzles here.

That and I get a lot from other people’s writing about technology and I want to give back (my traffic statistics suggest that people do find what they are looking for here pretty often) and also I am on a couple of tech lists that I have insisted keep archives private and so I feel particularly obligated to write about what I learn to make up for the fact that no one can find the threads where I’ve learned something.

I never meant for this to be only computers, but yeah, I also am not so inclined to put my own life on display.