It has been well over a year since I last posted to this blog...a far cry from the multiple posts per week that I wrote back near the start (June 24, 2004 to be exact). I started the blog to mess around with RSS as we were using that technology for work (remember, nearly 10 years ago!), so the first few posts were just messing around. But then I started posting photos and stories from our lives in Manhattan and later on the Jersey Shore. It became the main method of keeping our families up-to-date on what we were doing and of sharing photos with them.
The blog was kept pretty well up to date until September, 2011. At that point, Facebook took over as the main mechanism for keeping people up-to-date on what we were doing and of sharing photos with them. In a way, it took over from the blog because it was so easy...just upload a bunch of photos, maybe write a caption, and you are done! It took far less time than the narrative around the photos I wrote for the blog, and uploading photos was so much faster...in fact, getting multiple photos to upload in the proper order was a real hassle in the early days of blogging (at least on Blogger).
The demise of the blog also coincided with the transfer of primary photo-taking responsibility from me to Cheryl. As Cheryl began shooting in RAW and doing post-processing of the photos, they simply were not available in a format to quickly post after an event or vacation, and once time had passed the urge to get the photos posted with a story wrapped around them would fade. And it was easier to just share the album once she put it up on Facebook than it was to re-create the whole thing on the blog.
So for now, this blog is pretty idle. Only had a post or two in 2012, and this is the first post from 2013. If you are still subscribing to this blog as your primary way of keeping in touch, I recommend that you either click on the links on the left to add us as friends in Facebook, or subscribe to my Twitter feed (@SawyerCurt). I'm sure you've figured it out by now, but Facebook (and to a lesser extent, Twitter) have pretty much killed off the blog as a "what are we doing" and photo sharing channel. Until I can figure out a different use for it, one for which it is uniquely qualified, this blog will remain mostly idle.
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