Soft Landing for Clear Voice

Before the world shifted under our feet this year, I blogged about restoration of my voices across what I refer to as nfoCentrale, an amalgamation of web sites and blogs.

Lately I have turned, instead, to down-sizing and consolidation, focusing on a small number of projects that are central to my computer-science vocation.  This is a realistic move in light of my age and limited energy and enthusiasm, recognizing I have cast a net with too many unwoven holes in it.

Consolidation will be on GitHub, since it provides version control, Markdown authoring, hosting, wikis, and preservation of projects.  I expect that GitHub will endure as long as I require it, and having Git as a laboratory and preservation mechanism is ideal.

I will continue the nfoCentrale site, although more add-on domains will be surrendered; the content will remain as subdirectories of nfoCentrale.com and the catalog will reflect the altered amalgamation reality.

I also have to consider migration to a blog or two hosted on GitHub rather than Blogger.  This will provide relief from the disconnects between the current Blogger and LiveWriter; LiveWriter files are also not ideal for preservation purposes, though better than none.  I am saddened by the loss of continuity.  I will work through that in small steps. 

nfoCentrale: Longing for Clear Voices

I have had several blogs.  Some of their dormant states are linked on the sidebar here.  My inattention to maintenance of consistent voices on particular themes has led to fracture and confusion (for myself at least) with respect to my Internet presences.

A feature I miss is having separate blogs focused on roughly-consistent themes.  There has been 10 years of neglect since I was flummoxed by breaking-for-me changes in how Blogger worked. Now there is fragmentation of voice to reconcile. 

• Numbering Peano for the Miser Project, with theoretical and implementation facing matters now also addressed on the GitHub project, GitHub-hosted documentation, and perhaps a Miser Project Wiki.  Project issues are also used as a form of dialog on topics.  Discounting the Facebook presence, my pent-up need to provide a blog narration started with Orcmid’s Live Hideout (on Wordpress) and migration of posts under a label here.  That’s not satisfying, and I might migrate one more time with revival of Numbering Peano.  What a scatter-brain that orcmid is.
    
• Professor von Clueless, where I prefer to consolidate geeky developer materials and also tie ins related to nfoWorks, nfoWare , and the GitHub nfoTools (and a few others), all oriented to beginner/enthusiast/developer matters.  The separate nfoWorks diary is also languishing, with its focus on interoperability and electronic documents.
    
• nfoCentrale, the web-site anchor and its now decrepit status blog and the Spanner Wingnut experimental blog (and its predecessors) for confirming blog setups and templates prior to attempting changes to another “production” blog.
    
• Orcmid’s Lair, this respawning of a previous incarnation that is also the sequel to Orcmid’s Live Hideout, itself an imperfect image-losing migration from a blog originally hosted on Windows Live when there was such a thing.  There is a great of material on the Live Hideout blog, going back to 2007.  It was meant to be just an experiment, not Orcmid’s Lair accumulated offerings du jour.

What a mish-mash!

Some of this has to deal with me being so easily distracted and pursuing of new shiny things. “Squirrel!”.  At the same time, there is also confirmation that life-cycle of vendor (i.e., MIcrosoft) products and the continuing-use dependency of end-users are wildly different. 

So many blogs are dormant since 2010 because I failed to come up with appealing replacements.  Self-hosting of Movable Type on nfoCentrale.com and node.js development of hexo-based blogs didn’t pan out and they managed to have little deployment apart from experimentation on Spanner WIngnut. 

Here I am, having traveled full-circle, using Blogger and free blogspot,com hosting.  This restoration of Orcmid’s Lair (and continuation of Orcmid’s Live Hideout) is just one step. 

I remain wary and cautious, faced with tending this octopus’s garden of mine and achievement of some manageable consistency.