In case you haven’t noticed, I have decided to retire Abdiel Blog. I may post from time to time, but I’m not publishing anything regularly.
There are a few reasons for this. One is that I got tired of posting and just let the habit die. Another is that I use Facebook as my online social [...]

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Or should I change something else, like the colors or layout?

As you can probably tell, I am working on this website’s colors and some parts of it look weird.

Yes she does, and here it is. So go and comment on it.

No, it’s not Abdiel Blog’s Birthday: that happened about a week ago. But I completely forgot to post then, and so I thought I would mention the occasion now.
On May 16, it was one year since Abdiel Blog began. Here are a few of the year’s highlights:

The First Post: It was called “welcome, and wasn’t [...]

You may have noticed (if you are a very faithful reader) that a while back I promised to write a series of essays corresponding to Francis Bacon’s. And if you did notice, you may be wondering why you haven’t seen any yet.
I could tell you that I had irresponsibly forgotten about the project, but that [...]

Sir Francis Bacon didn’t invent the essay, but he almost did. The major pioneer of that genre was a thoughtful French semi-aristocrat named Michel de Montaigne, who published a volume of short works like “Of Age,” “Of Glory,” and “Of Thumbs” in 1580. Montaigne was, foremost, a reader. He learned Latin as a baby from [...]

One of the best blogs I read is The Hebdomadal Chesterton, which posts a short but telling quote from Chesterton every week or two. Since Chesterton usually matches his abundance of great ideas with an equally great abundance of words, those small excerpts are quite suited to a lazy reader like me. The latest quote [...]

I am pleased to announce that readers can now receive Abdiel’s blog posts as an electronic newsletter. While I consider a feed to be the best way to keep current with a blog, I realize that some people just like email better. To sign up, visit the new “subscribe” page on the main navigation.

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas. I did. If you visit this site (as opposed to just using the rss feed) you’ve probably noticed the remodeling job that took place over the holiday. Besides a cozy new layout, the most important change is that Abdiel’s blog and its other web pages are finally [...]