Excuses, excuses
By Todd Stadler · Thursday, February 1, 2001 12:34am
Honest, I'm working on it. Have some nice ideas flowing through my head. I've been writing content more-or-less offline for a bit now, journal entries and the like. In theory, I could go live with the very different new site any day now. Here's why I haven't thus far:
Usability. I started thinking about this concept, even bought some books, and I'll be darned if a) it isn't very exciting, b) it isn't taking up a whole lot of time trying to make my site something other than a journal with stupid graphics.
Ambition. I have this problem where I keep wanting to go further, higher, better. I could put stuff online now and add functionality, content, whatever, as I find time, but that irks me so. You come by, you see this lame half-implemented page, you leave. As it is now, things are much better. You come by, see a complete lack of implementation and a sorry placeholder page, you leave. Less effort for me in the long run.
Knowledge. I want to do things I don't know how to right now. I could not do them, but that would make things painful for me. I could also just use Blogger to solve most of my problems, but I want to learn to solve them myself. Other people use technology to make their lives easier. Me, I use it to give myself a headache.
Who cares. As far as I know, nobody out there is really reading this page. It's an exercise in design, writing, and futility. Feel free to let me know if you're impatiently awaiting the new design, but I won't bother clearing out my mail directory to make sure I have enough room for the influx of letters.
Love,
Todd
P.S. If you're really hard up for entertainment, why not take a gander at my supremely old web page from 1996 (or so) when I was at Rice University. Full of all the crapulence you'd expect from a personal webpage at that time, and all the pretentiousness you'd expect from me...well, pretty much any time. It has been lovingly FTP'ed over from my machine, where it was lovingly stored on my hard drive without a single character being modified from its days on a Rice Unix server. That means lots of things don't work. Images, links, content, design, you know. I'll fix all of that someday. Right after I get this new version going (wink).