I’ve migrated both sfoil and mfoil over from wordpress.com to a self-hosted site, sfoil.net. I haven’t updated either blog since October 2019. I needed to complete a major project in my waking life which is now accomplished, and when I did have time to write it was fiction for a real-life writing group. Although I don’t consider the pseudonym I use here to be much more than a form plausible deniability, I still wouldn’t have and don’t now want to post anything which could be too easily cross-referenced to my real identity, as that material would have been had I published it here. I won’t commit myself to any serious schedule but I am still alive and in need of at least an occasional outlet.
As for the decision to merge the two blogs, I would like to say it was financial, but in reality the cost of maintaining a separate domain name is rather trivial. When I set out, I wanted to keep my thoughts about military matters (srs bsnss) at least slightly separate from my “personal” thoughts, in order to preserve the respectability of the former. Well, aside from my relatively low post frequency, on examination I think that sort of respectability is rather a spook, as the kids say, quoting Max Stirner at third hand. My writing here is intended to be first and foremost a sketchpad of my thoughts which are incidentally available to others, and if those others have to put up with my pondering about the future of the Main Battle Tank being interspersed with cocktail recipes and anime reviews, well, how do you think I feel? At any rate I usually remember to set tags and categories on my posts.
I obviously reserve the right to change my mind about maintaining a separate page (though hypothetical apologies in advance to subscribers), although I don’t think that is too likely.