Rebirth, Part II.

As I mentioned before, I'm rethinking the KnowProSE.com site. To do that, I have had to analyze what I was doing with it for the last 9 years and what my motivations were. I'm also trying to figure out what the new motivations are.

The last 9 years were an exploration that started a little before KnowProSE.com. I'd already bought the domain for a company I was starting in Florida. And it followed me around for a while - 'Knowledge Professional, Software Engineer'. KnowProSE. And then I started branching out whenever something interested me - and so the taxonomy became as focused as some accuse my life of being. It's not my fault that some have focal baths while I have focal showers. I get to connect the water however I wish.

So here I am, late at night, considering the many twists and turns. Having just read Secrets of a Buccaneer-Scholar: How Self-Education and the Pursuit of Passion Can Lead to a Lifetime of Success, there is a bit of a reaffirmation of the way I approach subjects. I don't want to lose that. And I realize, too, that I can't keep doing that on one site. On one blog. It just becomes... unmanageable. And that is something I learned - something, perhaps, others avoided by conforming to the wisdom of the day as preached by the bloggers-for-bloggers.

But I got to learn exactly why it doesn't work whereas others just went with the conventional wisdom. I have an advantage - hard won, but an advantage nonetheless.

So what is to become of it? It's to continue being my flag site - but instead of wandering there, I think I'll post directions to where my wanderings are and other information.

Technically speaking, using Drupal to explore things on KnowProSE.com forced me to become better at PHP, MySQL, Drupal, etc. A lot of experimental code ran on those sites within the Drupal framework - little experiments that, oddly, never crashed a server. So, I need to eventually just get a sandbox site.

Suddenly, redefining the site became easier because I realized motivations shifted between then and now. Now I'm more interested in documenting the way I connect different things - or not. The way projects really happen. And, oh yes, keeping my information out there should someone wish to toss money at me.

Looks like I'll be doing more sites in the future...