Bringin it all back home

Inasmuch as Christmas is a celebration of beginnings, and just prior to the beginning of the new year, after some careful thought I've decided what I need to do is to split. Not split as in leave, but split as in start a new blog in addition to this one.

This one I'll keep as a medblog/scienceblog of sorts, and restrict the postings to those areas. My new blog, as yet to be created and named, will be on more wide-ranging topics, but especially about technology, computers, and maybe some politics and general comments on the state of the world.

One of the reasons for doing this is that I sensed that, as I considered blogging about anything and everything here, it actually seemed to get harder to blog about anything at all, a strange form of writers block, it seems.

So we'll see how this goes. Can I maintain two blogs, or will one (or both) die a miserable death? At a time when others seem all atwitter about Twitter does this make sense? Let's just say I'm not impressed by the stream of consciousness flavor of Twitter -- there are many streams out there I'd rather not step into.