Another blog, really? (Extended edition)

Reposting from my posterous miniblog

It’s been a while since I’ve been blogging. I’ve not posted anything in about a year, for various reasons (well, excuses). I’d like this to change and so I’m going to be experimenting with splitting up my blog. I’ll be posting more personal and whimsical stuff on posterous, keeping xerode.net for more “serious” content like code and animation/graphics.

I’ll be toying with different ways of bringing all my content together on my homepage through lifestreaming software or I may just stick to using my flavors.me account for that.

I’ve got many reasons for the above but most of it boils down to re-evaluating what I want to do with this site and various new goals I’ve set for myself. Ideally I’d like to make this site more professional and start integrating my portfolio and creative projects into it, while keeping the more personal content elsewhere but still accessible from my homepage.

So this is the last of these kind of posts you’ll see here. Instead expect more about coding and graphics – I’ve got a few drafts about ActionScript to finish and I’d like to post some of the work I’ve done in Processing, as well as document my first steps in OpenFrameworks territory. Hopefully this blog will end up with more purpose, instead of being a neglected mish-mash of mostly unrelated content and the occasional angst.

I’d also like to take the opportunity to completely gut this install of WordPress as I think it’s long overdue. I’m probably going to end up moving it to the domain root, clear out my unused plug-ins and carefully configure existing and new ones, all to make the site more functional. Once I’ve got everything running as smoothly as I’d like, I can sit down and flex my atrophied design muscles to create a more interesting visual identity that I can then use across the sites I post to.

Hopefully my small amount of subscribers will find this as interesting as I do and will be able to contain their excitment until it’s all finished.

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