My server’s hard disk seems to have died, one hour before I left the house for a two-month stay in Toronto. Since it hosted my website, I lost a lot of data, including everyone’s comments to this blog. Meanwhile, I’m doing the web hosting through another company, and on a new domain (davidpritchard.org). I’ve also killed off most of the old website and I’m slowly moving everything into WordPress.
I’m convinced of the blog way of doing things. It means admitting that most of the content on my home page is just a snapshot in time, and inherently dated information. Instead of trying to keep categorized information up to date, I keep my dated information categorized – a more honest representation of the underlying data, I think.
But I’m sure I’ll change my mind again soon. The one true good thing about the blog is that I can coast on other people’s templates, and get an attractive look for the whole thing with relatively little effort. Sure, I had to customize the title bar, but everything else is borrowed.