Permanent Beta

Blogging is a learning experience. At least it is for me. Every day I discover a new way to make things better and I tinker with things. I don’t usually mention all the minor changes I make, but I’ve recently made three significant changes to the blog that I wanted to draw your attention to:

1. Permalinks:  For reasons really too tedious to get into, I have changed the permalink structure of the blog. Theoretically anyone visiting here via an old link will be redirected to the new URL, but I have no faith in technology so I thought I’d better let you know about it. I’m sorry if I’ve broken anything important.
2. Comment Guidelines:  I’ve not felt the need to have a comments policy before — and I’m still not 100% certain I really need one now — but I have found myself deleting more comments than usual recently and so this is an attempt to explain why I do and don’t post certain comments. The short version of the guidelines is “keep it constructive; don’t be a dick.” You can find the full version here.
3. Twitter: I’ve been feeling self-conscious about repeatedly tweeting everything I blog, so I have created a dedicated Twitter feed for The Casual Optimist that will automatically update with links to new posts. I will occasionally post links to the blog from my personal twitter, but I plan to do that less and less.

Thanks for your patience.