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Well, here we are, hurtling towards a squeaky, shiny, brand new year.
Traditionally, New Year’s Eve in Wales has a fantastically pagan feeling to it, largely due to some old farming traditions, the most prominent of which is sticking a horse’s skull on a stick, covering it with a sheet and parading around from door to door with it. Honestly, not making it up. It’s called the Mari Lwyd, or Grey Mary to those not familiar with the celtic tongue.
The turning of the year is important to this site, in particular, because it marks the end of the third year of operation, pretty much. Oh, the format and purpose has changed more than once, with the former versions of the Fractal Hall Journal falling by the wayside to be replaced by this here weblog. This has been by far the most successful incarnation, with three months’ worth of content updated so far, holding steady at five times a week (Christmas Day excepted, obviously).
If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s that consistency is helped by a solid buffer of posts, and also by not promising something that can’t be delivered in time. So with that in mind, I’ve got plans to expand things a bit further in 2008, either by restarting Xenocrates M, the space opera webcomic published at the Fractal Hall for a while in 2006, or by bringing in something new. Whatever I decide on, it won’t be going up until we’re sure we can keep up with a solid schedule.
So we’re looking hopefully to the future here, while taking care to avoid seasonal reality-shifts and invasions from terror-beings of the beyond. And remember, should a cloth-covered skull come knocking for you tonight, it’s probably just a quaint tradition. Probably…
