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+layout: post
+title: A New Hope
+date: '2008-11-24T17:23:00.000-05:00'
+author: Anna Wiggins
+tags:
+- meta
+modified_time: '2013-10-22T11:19:50.569-04:00'
+blogger_id: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4209116010564764361.post-2208926562653345060
+blogger_orig_url: http://www.stringofbits.net/2008/11/a-new-hope.html
+---
+
+I once had a blog on livejournal, titled <a title="My old blog" href="http://slashsplat.livejournal.com">slashsplat</a>.  This blog didn't see very many posts, because I had to log out of my personal journal to log in to it.  So I decided that a blog hosted somewhere other than livejournal would be a good idea.<br/><br/>That's the purpose of this site.  It will be somewhat more general; the goal of this blog is to discuss geek culture and everything that may mean to me:  programming, technology, gaming (video and table-top), and whatever else springs to mind.  However, each post will try to be an entity separate from myself; personal matters that I feel like ranting about will not appear here.  I have a personal journal for that, after all.<br/><br/>Anyone who feels like reading this little piece of the Internet is welcome to come along for the ride.  If it's just an exercise in self-indulgence, then so be it.<br/><br/>(Below this post, you may notice I've included all of the posts from slashsplat as well.  Those few posts span a lot of changes in my life, so the tone will vary as you venture farther back.)

_posts/meta/2011-05-24-clearing-out-cobwebs.html

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+layout: post
+title: Clearing out the cobwebs
+date: '2011-05-24T16:53:00.000-04:00'
+author: Anna Wiggins
+tags:
+- wordpress
+- life updates
+- nearlyfreespeech
+- social justice
+- tumblr
+modified_time: '2013-10-22T11:19:50.890-04:00'
+blogger_id: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4209116010564764361.post-9157555665587796124
+blogger_orig_url: http://www.stringofbits.net/2011/05/clearing-out-cobwebs.html
+---
+
+Has it really been over a year since my last post here? It has been ann eventful year, that took me in directions directions that didn't quite fit the aim of this blog. You can read more about those changes in my life on my <a href="http://annabunches.tumblr.com">tumblr</a>, although they are bound to affect the tone of this blog as well. Some things you can expect here now:<br/><ul><br/>	<li>me talking about Doctor Who</li><br/></ul><br/><ul><br/>	<li>increased analysis of video games from the perspective of social justice</li><br/></ul><br/><ul><br/>	<li> bulleted lists that only contain two items with actual substance, and a third item that is self-referential</li><br/></ul><br/><ul><br/>	<li>posts about an increasingly diverse set of topics, including social justice, politics, and anime</li><br/></ul><br/><ul><br/>	<li>strangely organized sets of information, with self-referential lies interspersed</li><br/></ul><br/>I have also moved the blog from a self-hosted wordpress installation to wordpress.com. <a href="http://nearlyfreespeech.net">nearlyfreespeech</a> is a fine web host, but their recent decision to charge a daily fee on a per-site basis put them just on the wrong side of affordable for me. Also, wordpress.com has a lot of nice convenience features, and I don't lose any features that I was actually using.<br/><br/>So sit back and enjoy the blog. I know I intend to.

_posts/meta/2011-12-08-the-direction-of-this-blog.html

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+layout: post
+title: The Direction of this Blog
+date: '2011-12-08T09:00:00.000-05:00'
+author: Anna Wiggins
+tags:
+- meta
+modified_time: '2013-10-22T11:19:51.803-04:00'
+blogger_id: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4209116010564764361.post-7908977211100150042
+blogger_orig_url: http://www.stringofbits.net/2011/12/the-direction-of-this-blog.html
+---
+
+When I started this blog, it was with the intention of posting technical content - posts about programming projects and Linux tutorials and the like. Over time, my focus has grown to generally include 'things that interest me', which includes rambling about video games and Doctor Who. I've also been including more Feminist and Activist content, mostly because talking about Doctor Who and Duke Nukem Forever invites that sort of discussion.<br/><br/>So, at this point, I think I'll state it more or less officially: this blog is about anything that can be broadly classed as 'geeky'. I'll post on any subjects where I feel like I have sufficiently interesting things to say.<br/><br/>I will also likely be pulling more personal (and by extension, more Feminist and Activist, given the maxim that The Personal is Political) material into this blog. In particular, I have a personal-reflection-heavy review series of <em>Wandering Son</em> in the works. Since <a href="http://tardiseruditorum.blogspot.com">Phil Sandifer</a> recently described me as a Feminist blogger and this a Feminist blog, this seems fair enough.<br/><br/>Don't worry, I'll try to keep posting sufficiently interesting material to match my current level of 'interesting', whatever you think that happens to be.

_posts/meta/2013-10-22-this-blog-has-moved.html

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+layout: post
+title: You're in the right place
+date: '2013-10-22T11:27:00.001-04:00'
+author: Anna Wiggins
+tags:
+- meta
+- apologizing for hiatuses accounts for 20% of all blog posts
+- Doctor Who
+modified_time: '2013-10-22T22:51:58.078-04:00'
+blogger_id: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4209116010564764361.post-5966036917837787004
+blogger_orig_url: http://www.stringofbits.net/2013/10/this-blog-has-moved.html
+---
+
+I've moved over to Blogger instead of Wordpress for hosting this blog.<br /><br />Why? Because I'm administrating three other blogs, and they are all on blogger. Frankly, this was just easier. Hopefully, you didn't notice the move. The conversion tool I used seems to have worked tolerably well; I may have lost a few comments, but such is life.<br /><br />As for the long, long silence, well... that may have been noticed, at least by one or two people. I've actually been avoiding writing new content because I had this plan to convert from Wordpress to Blogger, and it took me a long time to actually get around to it.<br /><br />So expect more content here soon. Especially about Doctor Who and other media that catches my interest. For the sake of catching up and actually keeping content here, though, I am going to start reviewing at a condensed pace - in particular, Doctor Who Season 7 Part 2 should review well as a single entry.