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March 7th, 2006:

Separation of Thought

Mar 7th, 2006
by Jim Reverend.
6 comments

Those of you who have followed my online writing, even for a brief time, know that I constantly fight with finding a proper place for all of the different types of content that I produce. I’m sure I’m not the first person to think about this, I’m probably just one of the first to obsess over it so much.

It’s fairly easy for me to categorize my usual writing topics:

* My Life: Birth Annoucements, New Homes, Visiting Friends, Wonderful Family, What I did Yesterday, Etc.
* My Troubles and Reflection: Reflection and Introspection on who I am, what I stand for, and how I work.
* Local Events: Upcoming Parties, Events, Road Trips, and other Gatherings.
* Technology: Programming, Podcasting, Web 2.0, Mobile Phones, and every gadget known to man.
* Photograpy: Techniques, Equipment Reviews, and a constant barrage of Photographs.
* News, Politics, and Pop Culture: My take on everything that being an American and being a Human has to offer, from my love for Gyros and Pho, to my hate for Survivor and George Bush.
* Other: Everything else.

The problem is that it’s very difficult for me to separate them all from one another. For Example:

bq. This past weekend I spent some time with my new Nephew. I took quite a few photographs of him. I’m thinking I should start a website devoted to him and photographs of him. Lots of other children have them. It’s way better than an old fashion baby book. Just because my brother is not as technically inclined as other people doesn’t mean my nephew should suffer. I’ll probably use a combination of WordPress and Flickr to make the website, as those tools are quite easy to work with. Then again, that’s a lot of work and I’m sure he’ll be just fine without one. Seeing so much of him lately makes me consider, quite strongly, having children of my own.

So I missed “Local Events”, but, if it were closer to his first birthday, I’d probably invite you all to it.

So, aside from deep, personal introspection which needs to be a bit more anonymous, my initial thought is to just jumble it all together in one place and let you, my dear readers, sort it out.

I’m curious, however, about how each of you manage to separate yourselves into more manageable chunks. *How do you do it*?

revjim.net running WordPress

Mar 7th, 2006
by Jim Reverend.
2 comments

After lots of fiddling, groping, tweaking, screaming, vomiting, and suicidal tendencies, *revjim.net* is now running “WordPress”:http://wordpress.org/.

It’s a bittersweet victory for me. On one hand, I’m happy to, once again, have a blogging engine that allows me to get words onto a page with all of the control over it that I desire without standing in my way too much. On the other hand, WordPress is dead simple in design and implementation and, in this case, _simplicity breeds stupidity_. Some stupidity has found its way into the core, but most of it can be seen on the fringes in plugins. It took quite a bit of cursing and bashing to get it all in some fashion where I can stand to look at it.

My current theme isn’t at all what I want but it was easy to obtain when using the Kubrick theme as a base. In time, I’ll replace the entire theme with one of my own design.

“LiveJournal”:http://livejournal.com/ users will be happy to know that I’ve implemented “OpenID”:http://openid.net/. What this means is that by typing in your LiveJournal user name only ONE time and accepting the authorization from LiveJournal, you’ll be able to comment quickly and easily without having to type in any information at all (other than your comment, of course).

I’d love to hear your thoughts on this development.