Back from the Dead

Hear ye, hear ye!

I'm going to try ("No! Do, or Do Not! There is no try." Thank you, Yoda-sensei!) to resurrect this blog. Not because I have gained any great new insights. More just to preserve what few insights I've gained so far before impending senility and decrepitude steal them all away. And to at least do some kind of writing on a regular basis not related to work.

Speaking of work and by way of a disclaimer:

This site (blogger.com) automatically enables anonymous web traffic analysis using Google Analytics (GA). GA lets webmasters and page owners to see all kinds of nifty data about how their site/page is being used. The purpose of GA is to make the web experience better for users (which might include figuring out how to sell you shit, I mean, valuable goods and services you couldn't ordinarily live without.) It's purpose is NOT to track YOU personally in anyway.

So why am I telling you this? My new job is actually to write help and doc for GA, so I'm using this blog as a test site. I'll be adding GA tracking features from time to time, mostly just to see how they work but perhaps to actually improve this site. Again, none of this will gather your personally identifiable information (PII) and it should all be transparent to you.

(Now, having said all that, since at the moment I only have 4 followers and I know each of you personally, I can probably deduce your identity from things like your city. But if, say, 2 of my followers live in Santa Cruz, I wouldn't be able to distinguish which of the two was responsible for a page view on a given day, for example.)

If you want to opt-out of being tracked by GA here (or anywhere), you can install a browser add-on to do so: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.