havreberg.com

New design. New engine. Same nonsense.

The site is running on WordPress now. This wasn’t quite the goal I had in mind when I started tinkering recently, but I am kind of happy it’s where I ended up… I was running a very old version of a blog software called Textpattern that I didn’t use (for a year and a half) and didn’t want to deal with updating. So hopefully using WordPress will streamline some things. Except connecting to a little network of humans on blogger.

I added a bunch of categories for blog posts, although I’m not sure how useful they are at the moment. Seeing as I started this blog in college, and historically used it mostly to talk about art, my life, and things I’m working on, there is a lot of overlap and dubious value for the categories of “life,” “art,” “college,” and “work in progress.” But the exercise of creating categories and categorizing posts made me think about two things. The first is that I need to post a lot more work, a lot more frequently. Which was kind of the point of the site in the first place, and of the recent upgrade/conversion, and I could have told you a long time ago. In fact, I think I did.

The second thing was, I got to thinking about other facets of my life. Things that may be neglected, or at least that aren’t shared openly on the internet. At first I was thinking of interests/goals like running/exercise or trying new foods. Small things that will make me healthier and happier. But there are big things too. Family. Friends. Ideas. Dreams. I feel a little bit disconnected. Maybe I’ll end up touching on some of this stuff as well. I needs me some more categories.