In the ten-plus odd years since I started this blog I’ve made use of many different tools and techniques to create the nearly 1,650 posts in its archives.  For example, while I sit on a train writing this particular post on an Android-powered smart phone running the WordPress app, the very first post — as I recall — was picked out on an underpowered old Pentium desktop, the HTML hand-coded, whilst sitting on the floor of my Uptown Vancouver bachelor pad.

In the last year — having retired my company-issued Blackberry when I ended my job last summer — I’ve started carrying two smart-phones, my own Motorola Milestone running Android, and an iPhone 4 given to me by my new employer.  These phones, the droid in particular because of its full keyboard, have become quite important in my creation of content, participation in social medias, and generally interacting with the web.

Did you think I haven’t been writing? Maybe not much here, but I’ve managed to maintain a couple other niche blogs over the year.

I don’t exactly know is there is any real point I’m trying to make here, other than pointing out the sheer guffaw-ish wonder at how times change. It’s most of what I have been missing about this blog in fact, the boring old writing for its own sake of this place rather than the writing to make points of the others.

In some ways I’ve spent the last year trying to recapture that feeling, that essence, of word-craft freedom, but having placed each prior attempt in a neat little box, every other attempt has failed.

So here I am. Sitting on a train, mobile blogging in a way I couldn’t have imagined in 2001 when I drummed out those first words. And just writing that is awesome enough.