If you click around the new site a little, you'll see that I haven't actually taken much of a blogging vacation this summer, I've just been sending my posts to a different place while I tested out some new blogging software for some friends. The software package is still in alpha release, but it's good enough now to use day to day. Over the next few weeks, I'll show you around and introduce some of the new features. First stop is setting up a reader account.

If you don't have a reader account and you're not logged in (and right now that's just about everyone), you'll see a menu choice at the top of the web page that reads "create a reader account | log in." If you click on that, you'll be taken to a page that will let you set up a new reader account. All it really requires is your name, time zone, and e-mail address. Once you've created a reader account, two new things will be possible: (a) you'll be able to subscribe to e-mail notifications about new posts to the icann.blog (and/or my main weblog, of which the icann.blog is now a subcategory); and (b) you'll be able to post comments to anything I write. Over time, I'll be adding more features to the site that make use of the reader accounts.

More on the new features in the weeks ahead. In the meantime, welcome back to my weblog.