A Stubborn Mule’s Perspective

I have just started self-hosting The Stubborn Mule, so home is now at www.stubbornmule.net. All links to the old stubbornmule.wordpress.com location should automatically redirect - fingers crossed!

While bringing greater risk of messing something up, the move to self-hosting brings greater flexibility to the blog. For example, I can now embed flash and javascript, which I will show off by embedding a mixwit mix tape: A Funk Sampler.

UPDATE: Sad to say, mixwit is shutting down, so the mixtape in this post will not last much longer.

I had lunch with friends today (Yum-Cha at Sky Phoenix) and mentioned that I’d started this blog. I was astonished to hear that two of them claimed never to have read a blog! Now I know I spend a lot of time dabbling in all things Web 2.0 and I certainly didn’t expect anyone around the table to be plurking, but surely everyone reads blogs, don’t they? Apparently not. Since I gave strict instructions to everyone around the table to visit the blog (and leave comments, nudge, nudge), it seems like a good opportunity to share my blog-reading habits with these blog novices (and everyone else who may drop by).

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