I’ve decided to give this blog a bit of a shakeup/facelift. It’s been my personal blog space for a number of years now (back into 2005, by the timestamps), but my heart, and maybe more to the point my professional interests just aren’t into keeping that personal a blog any more. Part of it is the new(ish) social deal online — Facebook, even Twitter every six months or so, suffices most of my conversational needs. Part of it is wanting my thoughts and conversations to appear somewhere else besides online.

Well, some of them, anyway.

I’ve decided to refresh the site as a more professional-personal website, if that means anything. There’ll be a bit more CV, maybe a bit less drunken rambling. I’ll still post what I’m interested in, but it’ll be within certain specific contexts: bands; bike swim run; library/cogsci/OSS/OA/programming. Probably fewer posts (not that there have been a lot lately), but hopefully more substantive.

In the course of redoing this site (which is still obviously in progress), I’ve come across an interesting fact: most of my friends in my old blogroll (remember those?) have essentially stopped blogging. In a lot of cases, the blogs themselves no longer exist. BUT of the band whose web sites I’ve listed (either as a friend, contributor or full-fledged member thereof), most are online, and more to the point, are making music. So the blogs get taken down, but the bands remain.

I do want to give the blog site a bit more of a tune-up theme-wise, and I’ll be adding a few new features here and there (as well as some professional pages, etc.). I’ll also be changing the web site in general to point immediately to this install — more of an overall web site, less of a blog portion of same.

Finally: if you happen to be a person who was part of the old blog life here, and want access to the old stuff, let me know and I’ll hook you up to the archive. Otherwise, welcome to the new blog, mostly the same as the old one, except sanitized for your pleasure.

J