Blog Updates 2026

I have been blogging since the early 2000s on a variety of platforms. When I discovered Bear, it was refreshing. Bear reminded me of the internet of the 1990s. Friction-free, populated by normal people. It is so undemanding. Setting-up a blog required 15 minutes of effort. I wanted a personal space on the web because I knew I was a few years from retirement, and I wanted a personal blog that required little effort to set up and maintain. Minimalist in design. The relative anonymity Bearblog provides is appealing. I was fresh from firing X and Facebook. I wanted a normal people space. This year it was time to update my theme and layout. I’m a little more motivated to work on CSS and HTML now, but the easy way out was preferable. The Bearming theme is a good solution. Minimal with spice. If you want to pimp your blog, Robert provides nice options. It’s a training wheels approach to customizing a blog that works because Robert’s design is well done and constantly evolving. After deciding…