History Lesson Pt. 1
I realized as I was working on the redesign that I’m about to have a blogging anniversary. I’ve had a personal web site since around 1998, and it was sort of a combination gallery/ music trading space. It began, like most people, in an ISP hosted 5 meg free space. I started writing "this Public Address" on February 10, 2001, when I moved to my first domain, visibledarkness.com. The initial entry was:
2/10/01 A week or so ago I finally decided to become master of my own domain. I was tired of trying to write out my previous address; my handwriting is awful and few people managed to find my place, except those who wanted to trade music (sorry folks, I’m too busy right now). I’ve been in a weird, frantic, busy sort of mind and you might say that I’ve been lost in the land of allusion. So designing the place has turned into a minefield of allusions. The sort of "what’s new" zone became "this Public Address."
I’ve got mixed feelings about explaining everything; if you have to explain the joke, it isn’t very funny is it? But since I seem to get further out every day, I thought I would go ahead and explain this one. William Blake wrote a speech on scattered fragments in a notebook about the state of art in his time. It has no title, but since one of the pages refers to "this Public Address" it has been referred to that way by generations of Blake scholars. Since an Internet address is indeed a public address, and what occupies my mind most is the state of art, it seemed fitting. Of course, since this ramble will mostly consist of fragments rather than completed thoughts, the name works on every level.
January 30, 2005 2:05 AM | Comments (5)
A New Look
from Boring Postcards USA, Phaidon
Something a little brighter
Pardon my dust, I’m remodeling. I’ve gone from blue to brown to black to grey. Hey, at least I think it’s cheery. It scales and does not look like crap on my larger monitor. I was getting really sick of the old design.
I do not feel that content composed in one visual environment is transportable to another. At the very least, the meaning becomes skewed to the new context. Thus, as before, I’ve upped the version number of the blog to match the change in look. Once things get sorted out, the previous incarnations of the blog will be made available. But for now I’m concentrating on getting the current version to work right.
Bug reports are welcome. I’m testing the layouts in Safari, Firefox, and IE on both the Mac and PC and it seems to be okay so far. If you think otherwise, let me know. I am already aware of the problems on my older pages such as the gallery and I will fix them when I get a chance.
