You might notice a bit of a gap in blog posts (if a mere two years even qualifies as “a bit of a gap”). Aside from my being busy for a while, the gap is due to the WordPress blogging platform breaking two-and-a-half years ago (as I noted in Blog: Software upgrade, non-Latin characters lost).
WordPress changed the way it handled non-Latin characters, such as the Chinese and Japanese characters in many of my posts. The characters all turned to gobbledygook, and trying to replace them (or to write new posts with foreign characters) just gave question marks.
I tried some fixes. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the blogging software a couple times. I tried competitors’ platforms (which did work but were unsatisfactory in other ways). Finally, I came back to WordPress to see if later versions worked. I was happy to see that foreign characters do now work.
Thus began the tedious process of re-uploading each blog post to re-input foreign characters and to fix all the dead links, as news sites seem to enjoy changing their article URLs and removing their content. Another new WordPress feature is the ability to embed videos in blog posts, so I went back and did that as well instead of just using links to videos.
I know I won’t be blogging every day, but it’ll definitely be more than every two years.