Because, after all, this is my site and I can do whatever I want it. I even created a new category just to talk about it.
In the last few weeks, the blog disappeared, and all that was left was a link to my Mastodon account, and for a simple reason: I deleted everything. I deleted it partly because I was fed up, partly because I didn’t see any value in anything I had written, and partly because I no longer saw any sense in what I was putting here. And I deleted it without any mercy, without downloading backups to my computer, without saving the texts anywhere else, without thinking that one day I might want to review some of the things I had written just for the nostalgia of it. And of course I missed it a few days later. But since I hadn’t made any backups or anything, I had given up on everything and, resigned, I left it as it was.
Then this morning I received an email from the automatic backup system, saying that the blog had not only been restored but also updated. And I didn’t even remember that I had turned on the automatic backup system. To be honest, I didn’t even know I had an automatic backup system. But this little system saved everything, just as it was before the blog cataclysm. Technology, when it works, can bring little joys like this.
So I decided to upload everything back. Or almost everything. I reviewed all the posts and decided to leave everything that was more personal, like rants, reflections or even stories with the infamous voice in my head, in private. I’ll keep writing about it, in private. Who knows, maybe one day I’ll decide to publish it.
For now, I’m dusting off the place, arranging the furniture and thinking about which direction to take. I’ll probably focus on what I like: motorcycles, technology and arts. Everything else is noise, and nobody likes noise.
And maybe I’ll put the comments field back, if I figure out how to do that.