I don't really know what to say here. I'm excited to begin writing
again, I suppose. I lost all the posts from my old blog in a series of
clerical errors (mostly involving very poorly designed infrastructure
and the fact that I do sysadmin work at 1:00 AM when extremely sleep
deprived). Sad! I know. But we're letting it go and moving on. The
important thought, however, is thus: Before I accidentally overwrote the
posts, I was looking back through them and was struck by how lovely it
was to have a window back into my thought process then. Our past is
constantly shaped by our present, as much as our present is shaped by
our past, and it's interesting to see snapshots of what was going on in
my mind at the time. I hope to continue writing with enough consistency
to have something meaningful to look back on, a serious log of what's
been going on. We'll see!
In other news, site design choices! I've realized that the less strict a
system is the more likely I am to maintain it, so I've implemented
something that allows me to more or less just dump files in folders on
the server and have them show up on the web page. I'm pretty happy about
that. Still trying to decide if it's a horrible idea to use decoded
spaces in urls, but that's just a stylistic decision. Also, I'm planning
to put updates on projects, as well as other things I'm up to, on the
main site. We'll see how that
goes as well. I think (hope) that this website will, eventually, become as
wide-spread, varied, and diverse as my interests; that it will become a
map of the things that I'm into and the activities I do. I think that,
as a totality, that would be interesting. I like putting incongrous
things next to each other.
That's all for now. This post is a bit of a mess, as it's a bunch of
thoughts with almost no explanation. Thanks for bearing with me!