Jimmy Guterman’s Jewels and Binoculars

You may have your own opinion; I’ll tell you what I think on Monday.

I finally figured out how to get the last six months or so of my Blogger posts into WordPress. The site will look weird for the next day or so while I make sure the transfers worked. Sorry for any inconvenience.

Starting Monday, I’ll be executive editor of MIT Sloan Management Review.

No, you don’t. At some point, I’ll get the Blogger->WordPress translation tool to work. That hasn’t happened yet, so you can still find some of the old stuff here. But stick with the new.

Just a quick reminder that this blog, once again active, has moved to http://blog.guterman.com. Please change your links and feeds accordingly. So you don’t have to look it up, the new feed address is http://feeds.feedburner.com/JimmyGuterman.

And you can go there to find out what my new job is.

Onward…

Jimmy Guterman’s “Jewels and Binoculars” is moving to http://blog.guterman.com.

I’ve had it with the Blogger blogging software. It feels like Google has abandoned it: no development and certainly no support. It has become too unreliable to use anymore. Also, after many years of the same structure, it’s time to try something new.

The new blog will be at http://blog.guterman.com and it will open some time in June. When that happens, I will note its both via Facebook status and whatever the kids are calling a Twitter transmission nowadays. Before I depart, I want to share with you a clip of a cat playing a theremin.

See you in June…

Jimmy Guterman’s “Jewels and Binoculars” is moving. To here.

I’ve had it with the Blogger blogging software. It feels like Google has abandoned it and it has become too unreliable to use anymore. Also, after many years of the same structure, it’s time to try something new.

The new blog will be here. It will open some time in June. When that happens, I will note it both via Facebook status and whatever the kids are calling a Twitter transmission nowadays. Before I depart, I want to share with you a clip of a cat playing a theremin.

See you in June…

No blogging this week. Too damn busy. Seeya next week. I hope.

You want me to blog every day (or, at least, every work day)? Fine, I won’t break the chain anymore.

Hello to both of you who’ve waited for this humble weblog to return. I’m going to try something different this year. As those closest to me know, structure and I are not close friends. Everything reminds me of something else, which reminds me of something else, which … well, you get the idea. No structure. If I’m going to stick to blogging for more than a little while this time, I suspect it will be only if I create a structure that encourages me to post here almost every day. And a different topic every day keeps this blogger unbored.

So, here’s the structure that I’m going to attempt:

Every Monday, I will post about Cooking. [insert pause for laughter.] Yeah, I know, but hear me out. When I look at the things about myself that I want to improve, cooking keeps coming up at the top of the list. Partly it’s because I’m a lousy cook (married to an adventurous, imaginative one) and I want to become a better one. Partly it’s because my failure in the kitchen often feels like a metaphor for other failures in my life. Just as last year my cryptic decision to post sentences here from my novel-in-progress helped me focus on writing every day, I’m hoping that chronicling my disasters and occasional successes in the kitchen will keep me focused. The possibility of public embarrassment remains a powerful motivator.

Every Tuesday, I will post something Work-Related. The vast majority of my writing these days is for my work at O’Reilly (and, to a much lesser degree, Harvard). On Tuesdays, I’ll post something related to what I actually do for a living.

Every Wednesday, I will post the latest Greatest Song of All Time of the Week. No further explanation necessary.

Every Thursday, I will post something related to the Novel-in-Progress. They may be sentences from the work (currently, but tentatively, titled The Rock Star Next Door), they may be complaints about the process, they may be lessons I’ve learned.

Every Friday, I will post nothing, probably, because Man was not meant to blog with the weekend coming so soon.

Random Crap can appear any day, as it is, er, random.

I will also tag each post, to make searching by topic easier, and to help anyone coming here who wants to peruse, say, the music posts but none of the cooking posts.

Seeya Monday…

“Jimmy Guterman’s Jewels and Binoculars” will return some time in January. Ho ho ho, everybody.

[Note: The following question is 100% legitimate.]

When do you write this blog? Don’t you have a job?

Indeed I do, and I like it a lot. “Jimmy Guterman’s Jewels and Binoculars” is strictly an evening-and-weekends operation, regardless of when the cranky Blogger software indicates that the posts were, uh, posted. I’d love to tell you more, but I have to get to work.

“Jimmy Guterman’s Jewels and Binoculars” will return next week.

“Jewels and Binoculars” will be sitting in traffic until Monday morning. Be back then.

I’ve been using Blogger to publish my personal blog for 6-1/2 years. For a variety of reasons (mostly functionality and reliability), it might be time to change. If readers here have strong opinions over what system I should use, I’m all ears.

I have a new mobile phone number. Those of you who use my mobile number, please contact me and I’ll give you the new number.

I’m away this coming week at the Web 2.0 Summit. Dear “Jewels and Binoculars” readers, please let me know if you’ll be there, too.

Summer’s over. Time to blog again. Hi again, everybody.

To celebrate a recent hard disk crash, “Jewels and Binoculars” is on hiatus. It’ll be back, but not for a good long time. Please don’t remove us from your feed reader. We will return October 3. Really.