Drinking the Kool-Aid

Hello!

If you’ve found your way here from the Main Index page rather than under your own initiative, and if you’re familiar with what I’ve done before, then this probably isn’t what you expected to see. It’s a sentiment I share. Left to myself, I am a firm practitioner of form over function: get it looking beautiful first, worry about how to make it work second. And if you have to fall on one side or the other, make it the former. I don’t consider the contents of this page at the time of this writing to be beautiful, nor sufficiently aligned with the style presented by the Index page to be pleasing to me.

However: there is a certain school of thought that says that Function is not to be denigrated. People who spend time reading these kinds of works have evolved all kinds of expectations outside of the vacuum I live in- the ability to comment on what’s been written, the ability to subscribe to an RSS feed that tells them when there’s something new, etcetera. And there’s plenty of evidence to indicate that they’re put off by NOT having those expectations met, sufficiently so that it affects the reception of the work. So for once in my life (which admittedly, hasn’t been working out all that swell lately anyway), I’ve decided to bite the bullet and start out in the Function camp. Or in the words of the illustrious Yoko, “Drink the WordPress Kool-Aid”. Glug glug. We’ll see if it kills me.

Don’t expect me to link you to any other parts of my site from here, though. At least, not yet. Go back and use the Main Index page like you’re supposed to! That’s what I made it for.

Oh, and if you’re not familiar with what I’ve done before, or if you don’t know me- stick around. You will.