A New Day, A New Site
Though my readers have known me as Unlearned Hand for almost a year and a half, my real name is Gabe. I am a third-year student at the University of Virginia School of Law, and will spend the first four years of my legal career in the United States Army.
It seems that every few months I just need to shake things up in these parts. I started Unlearned Hand in February 2003, then effectively put it on hiatus to start En Banc in November 2003. Then I shut down En Banc in February 2004 and returned to solo blogging. And now I am shifting gears again.
The biggest change, of course, is that I am no longer using a pseudonym. It just does not seem necessary, and I have become tired of the disconnect the pseudonym created between my real life and my web presence. I have always wanted my website to be a natural extension of the rest of my life, and dropping the pseudonym is a step in that direction.
I have also, of course, changed the name of the website. This gives a more clear break from my old pseudonym, as well as signalling that law and legal issues will be only a part of the site's focus. It is also a name I can imagine keeping for many years, as it is closely connected to my core spiritual beliefs. Check out the post below if you're curious about the source of the site's new name.
Other than that, however, there have not been any groundbreaking changes. I made a few minor tweaks to the site's appearance, but most things should look familiar. That's on purpose, as I thought a significant sense of continuity was appropriate. I'm sure there'll be some broken links here and there, but hopefully for the most part the domain name re-directs will work.
I do have some plans for the future, including finally adding content to the music section, and possibly re-enabling comments. I am still pondering that, but the possibility of MT 3.1 with its post scheduling and subcategories might well lead me to an upgrade that could include registration-required comments. And my blogroll needs a total overhaul.
Please bear with my light-posting over the next week. It is my last week of work, and I have an appellate brief to finish. It is actually quite interesting, a Blakely claim no less, but I am not at my most productive with only a few days left. I will have a lot to say about working in a law firm within a few weeks, but this week I still have to keep my nose to the grindstone.
