After exactly 4 years, about 1200 published posts (and hundreds more still unpublished that I never got around to finishing), zillions of visitors and several sexual perverts who arrived here from Google, I've decided to pull the plug on my blogging career.

 I'll understand if you all want to hurl yourselves off the nearest cliff and wear nought but sackcloth and eat nought but ashes for the next 40 days but after much reflection I've decided to call time on my blogging adventures. I don't really have the time to write decent blog posts anymore and barely have time to read let alone write anything (I've only read one theology book this year would you believe), and so now blogging feels a bit like I ought to be writing something just for the sake of it and the whole enterprise becomes rather dull. Facebook is now a much better way to share the odd photo and let you know what I'm up to (if you're really that interested) and so that's the main reason I've decided to discontinue my blog.

There's also a slight professional dilemma. My new career means there are a lot more restrictions on my private life, and there are limits to the public opinions that I can and can't express. I don't recall anything particularly bad or unprofessional that I've written over the last few years but there are thousands of ill thought out rants and ravings on this site that it might be prudent to withdraw from public view so at the end of this week I'll remove all my archived posts as well as the blog frontpage.

I've really enjoyed blogging and have made contact with lots of great people, as well as lots of weird ones who like to send me equally weird e-mails about the Rapture. Writing an article and then finding that people have not only read it but also commented on it and linked to it on their own website is tremendously rewarding and I'll miss it. I have toyed with idea of starting an anonymous blog or writing under a pseudonym but I haven't started anything definite yet. I'd also like to showcase some of the website designs that I've concocted but that won't be happening anytime soon. Maybe if I really want to write about something, I'll pester you to let me write a guest post on your blog but it's unlikely for the time being. My sole internet presence will now be on Facebook, feel free to add me.

In the meantime, thanks for reading, commenting, linking, and discussing things. It's been a blast.