This is a sort-of blog I've set up at StumbleUpon, at


http://josephdunphy.stumbleupon.com/


with a companion at


http://people.tribe.net/joseph-dunphy/blog


It is not a replacement for my journals at Blogger.
StumbleUpon is a site for the posting of reviews of other
websites, and out of this can grow a kind of blog, as I
explain on the current introductory page:


http://saguaro.bravehost.com/Joseph_Dunphy/Reviewer/


The stringent character limits per post are one of the reasons
why one sees a companion blog, which I've named "Stumbling
into the Void"; the secondary blog at Tribe offers added room
for commentary. It also offers a working feed, which brings
us to one of the severe drawbacks of using StumbleUpon. The
link at the head of each excerpt on a feed takes one, not to
the full post itself, but to the site being reviewed when the
post is reviewed, the link being altogether absent when the
post is anything else.

Tribe feeds, by contrast, work properly, so in the short run,
as I bulk my StumbleUpon location out (it's currently one its
eighth page), the little place at Tribe might be helpful in
keeping track of what's going on. In the long run, once I've
made the Void into something bigger and better developed (let's
say, somewhere around page 40, maybe), I'll start interlinking
more between SU and "Monday Never Comes", which is the new
name for the successor to my Yahoo 360 blog.

I had a few reasons for choosing the name I did, some of
which will become clearer as I go along. My earliest loves
in Mathematics were not what I do now (mostly Applied
Mathematics, Probability and Statistics), but things a
little purer - some would say a little drier - including
Mathematical Logic. There is a sort of emptiness waiting
to be filled by the theoretician at those more foundational
levels, and so the name of this new place of mine in part
refers to that, as I will be looking for and discussing sites
on that and related subject matter, among other topics. Yes,
there will be some philosophy, and it might not completely
meet with the approval of some.

There will also be, as there already is, reviews of a number
of photographic galleries, of which StumbleUpon offers a
nice assortment, and other things. I'll discuss that a little
more, later, once I've posted maybe another eight pages.




Joseph Dunphy