Over a decade ago, I start­ed to put some small snip­pets of text on­line; later I learned that this kind of ac­tiv­i­ty is called “hav­ing a blog”, and so I in­stalled a blog soft­ware (that is, Serendip­i­ty) and called this blog “Skizzen” (“Sketch­es”), to em­pha­size the es­say­ist, im­pro­vised na­ture of these snip­pets. I now feel the need for an En­glish sis­ter or daugh­ter site: this here is my first entry (ex­cept some test runs I later delet­ed) of my new Sketch­es blog.

There are a few things com­pli­cat­ed enough such that I can only ex­press them using my na­tive tongue (since I’m not that flu­ent try­ing to cob­ble to­geth­er words from Al­bion), but on the other side, there are some tech­ni­cal sub­jects for which the re­stric­tion to an ex­clu­sive­ly Ger­man speak­ing au­di­ence doesn’t make much sense.

But the main rea­son I start­ed this new in­ter­na­tion­al branch is my brand new we­b­com­ic In­ter­fer­ences. I want a plat­form to be able to pro­vide my own com­ments for this comic, and this blog also serves as a con­ve­nient way to allow vis­i­tors (if there’ll be any vis­i­tors) to leave their own com­ments (on an In­ter­fer­ences comic page, just click on the map icon and fol­low the link la­beled “com­ment” to be con­duct­ed to the ap­pro­pri­ate blog page), and fi­nal­ly, I in­tend to use it as a way to an­nounce new in­stall­ments of the comic (since I ex­pect up­dates to be ir­reg­u­lar and in­fre­quent), so if you want to be in­formed when­ev­er some­thing new hap­pens here, just sub­scribe to the blog feed. And if you want to leave a com­ment for any­thing from the very first page to the last page of Chap­ter 4, leave your com­ment as a com­ment to this blog entry.