I feel like I discovered Ftrain.com years ago, well before I was aware of anything like a blogosphere. There were just blogs back then, little unconnected islands of thought percolating through the phone wires. And because I responded intellectually to Paul Ford's writing on that site, I have always kept a mental note to check it out, every few months, usually late at night or during a slow moment in time, when I feel like I've reached the "end" page on the internet from that stupid commercial.

Usually I was rewarded by some little post or link, but recently, many times I was not. Then, of course, came the majesty of the Gary Benchley serial saga on The Morning News followed by the excellent novel based on those articles, Gary Benchley, Rock Star. We had several months of Ford in full bloom as the book hit the publicity circuit. But lately, again, radio silence. Now I don't spite anyone's need to get away from these glowing screens, but as a reader, I simply missed the site.

Now comes a sudden deluge of posts! Ford has been blogging regularly since 2007 was begat, apparently some sort of New Year's Resolution, get it, get it?  Part of my interest is that Paul is a web geek who writes. After being a web geek for several years, I too am writing, though the first novel is probably at least nine months off and I have happily abandoned the coding part of my brain, except for boutique projects for friends who need websites and of course keeping up this little blog, which is really only hear to call attention to my work as a writer.

Although his posts have been apocryphal so far, I will be reading the blog with great curiosity to see what comes of his efforts. I suggest checking it out sometime.