Thanks to joe, one of my longtime friends, this blog now has a name: The Man Cave. The name is partly self-deprecating, since I don’t make any claims to be one of the world’s great thinkers — I merely recycle a lot of good ideas and keep them in circulation, but it’s also a reference to the way that a lot of men handle issues.

John Gray first popularised the man cave in his book Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus. But where Gray envisioned the man cave as a place to which men retreat until they are ready to deal with the problems, I envision my cave as a place I where I can focus on the problem until I work out my position with regard to it.

So this is it. Welcome to The Man Cave. Enjoy your stay. It’s not messy, it’s supposed to look this way.

After almost half a decade, I’ve decided to move my primary blog from the excellent LiveJournal to my own domain. Patchwolf.com’s main domain had been sitting largely unused since almost 2004, and I decided it was time to put it to some use.

So what’s this blog going to be about? Pretty much anything that comes to mind. Politics, religion, martial arts, psychology, raising a family, technology, and the like. Anything that comes to mind, really. What I will try to avoid is pointless “my computer’s messing up again! *Grrr*” style posts. I want every post I make to still hold some value three months down the track. The tricky part of this will be trying to find something of value frequently enough to make this worthwhile. I’ve written a few of these posts in my time at LJ, and at some point I will migrate those posts to this platform as well.