enthusemarc's Journal

3:59pm: LiveJournal feed of enthusiasm
It turns out that my main blog, enthusiasm has a feed into LiveJournal that I never knew existed.

Add http://syndicated.livejournal.com/nexistepas/ to your Friends page, if you want to follow the blog that way.

10:11pm: little man, you've had a busy day
what was I saying about good reasons for doing the strangest things having a habit of dropping out of nowhere? The following is a repost of this evening's blog post at enthusiasm. I'm putting it here because I've only been active on the blog again for a couple of weeks, I don't know if anyone has noticed it yet (nothing coming in over there but trackback spam), whereas here, I know at least two of you - my mutual friends! - will see it, and you're both pretty smart guys. I'd welcome your comments, either here or there...

I was up and about at 5.30 this morning, feeling fine, and happily sat down to work. I've spent most of the last, what, sixteen and a half hours on this blog, and I require a pat on the head, at the very least. To summarise:

• All 1,141 posts are now imported from the Blogger blog, which is now in the process of dismantlement. The import script must have welcomed what I guess is the quietest part of the day wherever it is that Blogger servers live.


• I have tagged and titled through to the end of April 2002 - which sounds like a lot, after yesterday's efforts on October, 2001, but fewer than half as many posts were involved - I had my first serious hiatus during that time, due to the financial trauma of blogging (as I was then) on a dialup connection. After April '02, things got busy around here.


• I've replaced the horrible drop-down menu of categories with a plug-in called Fold Category List (from WebSpaceWorks who are clearly smart cookies, even if they appear not to know how to spell 'collapsible').


• 
  I've set about the assembly of a category tree, moving this under that, ad nauseam, so at the time of this writing there are just ten primary categories, not counting the uncategorized as a category.

I started into this without a firm pre-conception of what these primary categories would be; Biospheric, Cultural, Infrastructure and Locality I would regard as more or less predictable uber-categories; Miscellaneous is kind of inevitable. That leaves four surprises, for me at least.
Self is the primary exception: if I was to reduce the taxonomy to two mega-uber-categories, then they would be Self and Other - but that would be a reduction too far, at least for the purpose in hand.
Catastrophe and Forthcoming Attractions are applicable in each of the others, but which do not belong specifically to any of them, nor do the others belong to them.
And that leaves... Kids.
What am I supposed to do with the kids? Seriously, I'd like to know.

11:33pm: first post
I really don't know if I'll be actually using this platform. I created the account in order to post a comment on an LJ post where it was required, and that's as far as it goes. My blog is at http://www.nexistepas.com/enthuse and that's where I expect I will continue to write. It's been quite a struggle to start doing this again, actually, aft a couple of years' hiatus, and I can't see me keeping two of the things going without a good reason. But then again, good reasons for doing the strangest things have a habit of dropping out of thin air, so you never know...