tfl: The Flatiron Life

For all of you worried about the broken style from the last two days, the style has been fixed. (note: No one noticed, so I question if anyone is actually reading).

The technical details are that Wordpress tries to do some automagical formatting to posts. in this case newlines were added at the end of each close tag and cause Firefox to whack out (but I assume in a W3C compliant way ).

I was finally able to get all my old Blogger posting into Wordpress.  If you want to check out all the old posts they are on the right in the archives.  If you want to start at the beginning, go here.

For the last few days I have been setting up and primming a new blog. This one is dedicated to my journey in learning German and I am calling it ‘Lass uns Gehen’ (Let’s Go). I am writing there only in German. I am hoping German speakers of all levels might stumble upon it and point out where I mess up and give me more examples. I am also going to give the URL to my former teachers and see if they can correct me.

At first I was not sure if it was going to be effective. But over just the last few days, I feel what I know and am learning being reinforced by using it in different ways.

My hope is to one day be able to write everything I post here over there. However, my vocabulary is still very very low and my grammar is not very well developed. Unless you want to have much much simpler posts over here. I have not formally learned future or passive, and writing about things happing in the future in an agent-less way is what I am all about.

I have wanted tfl to grow for a long time. However I have not had the time I would have liked to really nurture it. A few weeks ago I finally pestered Joscelynn enough to join me and I think it has done a lot of great things for the site. Most people agree she is a better blogger than I.

Now the next step. Jos told me last night that she wishes there were more participation from our readers. I have being trying to find ways to do this for a while. I think if there is more interaction with our current readers, the site will look (and be) more alive and more new readers will join in. To this end I have added a widget on the right rail to advertise the recent comments. I encourage you to subscribe to the comments feed to see what everyone is saying in your aggregator, but this is a nice way to see how people are reacting when you check out a new post.

I think we have a good mix of topics here. However to be more focused and more regular, perhaps we need to specialize. I think a healthy mix of personal information along with our take on politics, economics, and philosophy. (BTW, our take is they are inseparable and pretty much indistinguishable.) Do you think this is the right direction? Is there something more you would like to see?

Finally, if you want a voice to react to something on or off tfl. Anything really. Email us or leave a comment. We would love to have guest writers and even full compatriots someday.