OneMind

As of Feb. 4, 2006, this is my new blogging home on the Web. After several years using Web Crossing, which is still one of the finest Web platforms around, I’ve decided to give my own space a new look, feel and architecture.

Two things motivated this change.

First, I have become really interested in categories as an organizing principle on the Internet. Drupal, which is the tool I’ve adopted here, is taxonomy-driven. I have a sense that over time this is going to prove quite beneficial both to me and to my readers.

Second, Web Crossing really requires a level of technical skill and interest that exceeds my own if you want to extend and customize it. It’s not thta the underlying language — which is a JavaScript dialect — is all that hard, but Web Crossing incorporates a proprietary object store that is brillilantly designed for what it accomplishes inside Web Crossing but which has consistently eluded me as I’ve tried to extend it over the years. Furthermore, because Web Crossing pre-dates much of the interactive Web, it is not always easy or obvious how and where to apply changes when I want to do something it didn’t anticipate my wanting.

Drupal seems to me to overcome all these llimitations. I’m excited at the prospect of using it. At some point, I’m hoping to migrate all my old posts over here but in the meanwhile I’ll maintain this blog and post one-line links to this one from my old Eclecticity location. That way, nobody gets left behind.

Welcome aboard. I’m looking for feedback, so please feel free to comment or email me.