Welcome to the "Vac Blog" at www.vacumania.com.

Welcome to the "Vac Blog" at Vacumania.com.

I receive frequent email messages regarding old pens. Given the plethora of blogging tools now available easing the process of blog creation, it seemed time to open up some of these conversations to a broader audience. No worries... if you email me privately with any question or comment, your name will not be used without your say so. Direct emails provide ideas for discussion; their privacy is respected.

This blog will serve- at least for now- a few purposes. It will allow public discussion of pen questions that head my way. A frequent "bits and buckets" thread will open up the floor to questions and observations, some of which in turn will become their own threads, assuming anyone bothers to post anything. Finally, I will post website news, announcements and update information here, though perhaps those will be better served on a dedicated non-interactive web page. Time will tell.

Please be patient regarding posts. The blog is fully moderated, meaning I will clear each post before it appears. All save the malicious will appear, no worries. Comments can be anonymous, though your choosing a handle would be appreciated. Generally I check in a few times each day, but hey, vacations happen. The goal for the blog is not to serve as yet another newsgroup or real-time discussion board for pendom. There are plenty of those, and I don't wish to compete with the Zosslist et al. Exploration of specific pen issues and notifications regarding the the website are the goals. Still... evolution of that goal set might happen.

I've set comments to appear by clicking on the... comments link... at bottom of each post, which will open a post/response page. This way, discussion of each subject receives a dedicate page, assuming again of course anyone bothers to respond. The main post will be visible with the related responses.

Comments are invited, obviously :)

Best Regards,

David Isaacson