My name’s Jeff. I live in Canada with my wife Ruth and our six kids. I wear a few hats outside (and inside) the home. I’ve always enjoyed writing, but recently have become a bit more active.1
A while back — way back when blogs were a more common sight, before any stacks had yet been subbed — I too had a blog. I believe it was hosted on LiveJournal. All the cool kids had a Livejournal. Eventually, I switched over to Blogspot. So much freedom! You could design it to make it look how you wanted (almost). HTML and CSS for the win. And finally I moved to WordPress. The URLs proliferated. Private ones and public ones. Long-lasting ones and ones that only really existed as a concept. I’m not really sure what I wrote on those blogs. Possibly the words still persist in a dusty old server somewhere: 0s and 1s frozen in time, gradually deteriorating as all things must do.
Anyways.
I’ve been thinking about getting a blog going again for a long while. Mostly, this is driven by the feeling that I want to move away from the newsletter platform — well, not really the platform as much as the Twitter-style “notes” function that has been introduced. It’s just not good for me!
So, I’m moving a bunch of the articles I wrote for a couple different newsletters over to this webspace, which I’m happy to report is hosted on a Canadian-owned server. Maybe that doesn’t matter that much in the big scheme of things, but one of my preoccupations is the idea of knowing where things come from. It’s kind of cool to know that the dataservers that host this site are somewhere in Vancouver, a city I’ve walked in and where friends of mine live.
I like to write about history, technology, and the experience of being a creature. Generally, I’ll try to categorize the more technological/ philosophical stuff as “The Given World” and the more historical stuff as “At Home Histories“.
Since this is a blog now, though, I hope to use this space for other topics as well, including writing about the writing process and some of the projects I’m working on, book reviews, reflections on printing, and explorations on film.
If you are interested in reading along, welcome! Glad to have you.
+ Jeff