Giving this another try. I've always been surprised with myself - given how much I read, how strong my opinions are and how much I love being a grammar Nazi, you'd think I'd absolutely love writing.

Maybe it was the platform? Wordpress was very... Immobile. The iOS app didn't work very well, and I was spending too much time tweaking pictures and alignment. And I never did find a minimalist theme I liked. Perhaps the move to the more nimble, flexible Posterous will bode better (Considered Tumblr, but didn't find the whole reblog thing up my alley).

Maybe it was the hassle of uploading pictures and finding the time to sit down and write? I have the iPhone 4S now - sold off my nearly-new S95 when I heard how good the camera would be, and I definitely have no regrets. Pictures are a tad noisy, but there tons and tons of apps that more than make up for any limitations of the 4S camera.

Maybe it was the apathy that set in. Malaysian politics has been in the doldrums for a while now, and the euphoria of 2008 is wearing off. The opposition has made its own share of screwups, and there isn't that sense of urgency now that people are much more politically aware (I'm glad to say that after Bersih 2011, most of the girls in the office marched down to get themselves registered!). And my own meanderings on faith and freethought have blunted somewhat, now that I'm more settled and confident. But the next GE is just around the corner, and I think the passing of Christopher Hitchens affected me somehow. I want to be able to look back in another 20 years and laugh at how cynical and aloof I was, dammit!

Hopefully with those issues out of the way, I'll be blogging regularly this time!

Tried importing my old blog to Posterous, but comments wouldn't show up properly, and line breaks disappeared. So the old posts are now at http://archives.timthinksthat.net instead.

Here's to my third try at blogging! Watch this space.