A reset has occurred
First, my brother has a blog. From the clear blue sky, he got a website, set up the blogging software and even wrote a few posts. Of course he's capable. The surprising thing is that he never struck me as a blogger.
The thing about having a blog is that you have to maintain a blog with regular frequency. Your readers won't mind if you post hourly, daily or weekly as long as you keep the same rythm. Upon realizing that I hadn't posted since November, it occurred to me that I simply don't have the time to post the kind of content I did before. And if you're going to change your style, then change your style.
I've a new wordpress theme, mainly because there is an entire generation of newer wordpress software to be had.
Alas, all the old content is gone.