As you may have noticed, The Left Call is undergoing some design changes.

The goal is to make the site easier to read and hopefully easier to navigate. Don’t hesitate to provide feedback telling me what you like or don’t like about the new look. Things may continue to evolve here over the next few days and weeks.

Thanks

dks

photo by SomeDriftwood via Flickr

It’s a happy one year anniversary for this website! I started this site as “Indiscriminate Ruminations” on August 16, 2010 as a platform for writing about things that interest me. The most common topic over the next 11 months was technology with a  frequency of posting measured in weeks and months.

In August of 2011 I decided to get down to business and blog about much more important topics that I think about and read about and to do so with greater frequency. I felt the site was in need of a new name that was more fitting of the new direction. Therefore, on the day of the one year anniversary, The Left Call was born. The new direction of this blog means covering much more controversial and confrontational topics in the areas of politics, human rights and the environment. By covering these topics I feel I’m being more honest about what REALLY interests me and I hope that honesty shines through in my writing. If you have enjoyed any of my articles on technology don’t worry, I will still be writing about technology, photography and other areas of interest. The new direction of this blog simply means I will not limit my writing to safe topics only.

The mission of The Left Call is to shed light on the nonsense, the spin and the lies heard every day by politicians, pundits and those with agendas of personal or political gain and not the greater good of society.

So far my blog has been about writing articles in long form. I was never that concerned about how frequently I wrote an article. Instead I chose to write, when the writing muse struck, about things which interest me. I’m still going to write long form articles for that same reason but I’m now also going to experiment with writing much shorter notes, almost in a fashion similar to the 140 character limit on Twitter. Where it will defer from Twitter is that I’m not going to impose any kind of character limit. The intention of this experiment is to essentially write one or two sentences or a paragraph of a prevailing thought I have at any given moment. This could be after having a conversation with someone at work or while watching a TV show or listening to a song.

Our minds are always busy with thoughts no matter what we are doing. Some thoughts and ideas are better than others. When I have a thought or idea that makes a lot of sense to me or strikes me in some way, instead of jotting it down on Evernote (as I do now), I plan to jot it down here as a blog post. I don’t intend to get personal with the thoughts and ideas I post here. The topics which likely will be covered will not differ much from the content you already can read on this blog. The main difference is that it will be short and to the point and much more stream of consciousness.

This is the plan as of right now. As I said, it’s an experiment. It might take some time for me to adjust to blogging in this fashion. So, please indulge me for a short while.

To kick off the new Indiscriminate Ruminations I have given the website a fresh coat of paint. The new look is clean and more professional and I think it will work much better with the new direction for this blog. I hope you agree.

I figured it was about time I created a personal website and blog.  What do I have to say? What will this blog be about?  Well, as you probably can extrapolate from the name of this blog, it’s not going to be about anything in particular.  I might post about a project I’m working on at home, at work, something new I’m  interested in,  a book I’m reading, or anything else I can’t think of at this time.  Right now I don’t know  if this will happen frequently (daily) or less frequently (weekly…).  I’m sure I’ll get a better feel for how much I have to say on this blog as time goes on.

So, let me take a little  time to thank you for visiting my new blog.  Hopefully you will have a reason to continue to return from time to time to see what I’m up to.