So I'm, um, starting to write here again.
This weblog was started way back in 2003. In July 2006, I switched to a WordPress site (CallahansClevelandDiary.com), which lasted until early 2013, when, for reasons too complicated and boring to explain here, I lost access to the hosting site along with all the files.
But the truth is, Callahan's Cleveland Diary really ran out of steam a year before that. Part of the reason was time; I was lucky enough to get to run a big community technology project funded by Federal broadband stimulus funds (which is my real work) and I just didn't have the bandwidth for blogging. Part of the reason was boredom: I'd spent years writing about the same handful of topics for a shrinking audience (it was never very big in the first place), and it was all getting pretty repetitious.
Well, now the big project is over, a couple of years have passed, and that old itch seems to have returned. So here I am back at the old stand, with some new (or maybe just reconditioned) thoughts to share about "economics, politics and real life in Cleveland".
As for that six years of lost blogging at CallahansClevelandDiary.com, I've managed to salvage a lot of those posts via the still-awesome Internet Archive, and I'm slowly but steadily re-posting them to a new "sibling blog" of this one called Cleveland Diary: The Lost Years.
So, there you have it. Cleveland Diary is back. Thanks for stopping by.