Blog o’ Gnosis

What? A challenge from another blogger to take a photo of all the books I’m in the middle of reading? That sounds like a lot more fun than all the other things I planned to do this morning. And it comes after a recent purge, where I put back on the shelves all those books (and there were several) that I was in the middle of reading but hadn’t touched in over six months. That’s the rule: I can’t really claim to be reading something if in fact I never actively read it.

Website maintenance is a near-continuous process, something they don’t tell you in those seminars about how easy it is to put up a website. When I first realized that having a website meant I had to figure out how to fix it when it was broken, I was filled with dread. Over the years, though, the process has gotten easier to manage. I chalk it up to my Philosophy of Dreadful Jobs: when faced with any daunting task, if you actually start it at some point, then continue until it eventually is completed, it becomes less daunting. Who knew?

Oh why oh why did I choose wordpress for my blogging software? It’s great, I love that good feeling that comes from using open source software, and I’m proud of figuring out how to upload and configure it all by myself. But it is a little too geek-ified for me. Every time I upgrade to [...]

I thought I couldn’t do it–navigate the back end of my server and set up a blog, but after an hour and some change, I think this thing is ready to run! All the while I was building it, I kept reminding myself that this goes against my business principles: I am creating something I don’t yet have a specific use for. But the gravitational forcefield of the blogosphere was too great to resist, so here I am with a blog of my very own.