I've been absent from this site for quite some time. Life and work just gets in the way, and submitting posts to this weblog is too cumbersome to do on-the-fly.

As web technologies have improved and matured over the last two years, I took another look at "blog services". Most important for me is the ease with which new entries can be made offline, and the automatically posted online. This way, all entries exist independently locally - the web journal is just a copy of it.

As it happens, I'm trying out the wordpress service in conjunction with Journler and MarsEdit. Thus far this combination of tools has passed usability tests, and I've been able to create new posts FAST, as well as retaining an offline original. The service is hosted by wordpress, so no maintenance for me, and more time to focus on content, work and life.

So I'll give it a try. You can find the second / new / alternate / possible replacement journal at pbruiter.wordpress.com.