15 December, 2013
Categories The Arts
Just had a look at how many poems I have got on this site, IanLive.com: Over 80 pieces.
I have started to add categories as a means to find and sort. The trouble is, like with any kind of natural system, the more stuff and structure you have, the more energy you need to manage it. I hope to reduce this energy by using a lot of automatic wizardry stuff in the background but the groundwork has to be laid first.
Categories Work
I was half-operating two websites: The technocrat WizSein and my ‘artisian’ wizian.me, with an empty IanLive.com. My orginal thoughts was to use IanLive as an aggregator for all activities.
Categories Work
I operate several servers. One of them was showing a high traffic. Normally one is pleased when there is traffic but this time if was from over 100 users who were entering lots of comments full of advertising links - they were adding at least 4 comments each minute.
Categories The Arts
In the 70’s I wrote a collection of poems which I self published under the name “Miscellany”. I have now added them to this website. They can be found under the tag “Miscellany 1975”.
Categories Work
All my life I have been interested in the arts and dabbled here and there over the last few decades, but most of my creative energy has flowed into the industrial “arts” like the conception of technical systems and objects and getting things going.
Categories The Arts
I was thinking about a quote for the header of the site.
To tell the truth I wanted to have something intellectual, be cool, totals, man.
So this popped out:
…I am not what I am not,
And what is not is not what is not not
For what is not may not not not
Categories The Arts
Over the last few weeks I have been asked if I am an artist. My answer has always been “No”.
Why?
Because for me an artist was somebody who had perhaps studied the arts, paints /sculptures/video-creation regularly but had definitely had a couple of exhibitions.
Categories Work
Spent a couple of hours building the structure of this site.
Of course by definition, this site will also be a “product” with a life cycle, costs, customers, etc.
I don’t think most people who have sites think this way - they just plunge ahead - kind of “…gotta have something online because its expected of me”.
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