Site Reorg In Progress

[Jonathan Swift]

I spent a lot of my time in the lockup contemplating how to proceed
with the Software Problem website.

Stanford allows us use of our laptops and provides free wireless for
all patients. Mills Peninsula allows neither one. I damn near
dropped dead of boredom over the last week, so I was quite challenged
to find stuff to keep my brain from completely halting.

I expect to upload the new site by mid-afternoon today. After I do so
I'll need to break from my work on the site for a few days. I will
then finally start looking into improving the visual appearance.

For reasons of Search Engine Optimization, it was critical for me to
get the basic textual content and structure of the site posted before
taking up the question of aesthetic appearance. That's because there
is often a long delay between posting new content, and that new
content becoming visible to end-users via the major search engines.

I have a totally new homepage, that I attempted to submit to k5 back
before my recent... event. I've fixed it up a bit; when I roll out
the new site, it will state quite clearly, at the top, that I aim to
solve three distinctly different Software Problems:

* The Computer Software Problem
* The Mental Software Problem
* The Social Software Problem

There is a lot more to The Mental Software Problem than just mental
illness. British Petroleum's shenanigans are getting front and center
for this one.

The Social Software Problem mostly concerns Millenarian Movements. I
studied them in Anthropology of Religion at UC Santa Cruz. They are
generally End of the World Cults. The homepage will have a modest
introduction to some of them, but a more detailed discussion of some
of them has already been posted:

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
http://www.softwareproblem.org/lets-eat-something-good-for-our-heads/

The navigation on the right is getting totally revamped. There will
be separate, clearly visible sections for each kind of Problem. Some
of the more important essays will be listed explicitly as well.

I am adding a "What's New" page to make it easier for fans to find new
material.

In a week or so, I'll work at setting up an RSS feed. That's usually
provided by blogging software, but I'm using - presently - manually
written static pages with Server Side Includes, so I have to brush up
on my Perl to make a feed. Happily there is a package at CPAN that
enables static website RSS feeds; the way I configure it might make a
nice piece for K5. I already use that package for The Vancouver
Diaries.

Two Essays for All Humanity will be re-titled The World of Madness is
Round. This is to reflect my assertion that I have been experiencing
the symptoms of healing from madness since last October, and not the
symptoms of madness itself. It's a metaphorical comparison to digging
all the way through the Earth only to come out the other side standing
upright. Diving headlong into the worst kind of psychosis had that
kind of healing effect on me.

This admittedly perilous idea of mine is not without basis in theory;
it's more or less the same as Electroconvulsive Therapy, or Shock
Treatment. Loosely speaking, I have found that dropping my mind into
a Mixmaster resulted in a healed mind once it reassembled itself.

I'll be writing up some of my experiences in The Enemy Within. I
recognized many kinds of psychotic symptoms that few other than mental
health professionals are familiar with. For example I tried to read a
restaurant menu. I knew what the words were and could see that they
were correctly spelled, but even so I could not read them. I wanted
to buy some potato wedges at this fast food joint, but was completely
unable to figure out what their price was. Eventually I just gave up
so the cashier could tell me herself.

Making sense of experiences like that to my reader will be a valuable
contribution, but a very challenging one to get right.

What I did not expect though, was that reassembling my brain was going
to require admission to three separate inpatient units for well over a
month.

Just try to imaging my latest p-doc's reaction when I told him that I
stopped my meds Cold Turkey so I could research my upcoming psychology
book. I swear he wanted to beat me to death with his bare hands!

Some of the existing pages will be moved. Permanent redirects will be
placed at the old locations so existing inbound links will still work.

Coming Real Soon Now To A Software Problem Website Near You.

Jonathan Swift

[Joshua]

So whens oggfrog getting done?

[George Stark]

Whatchu talking about Willis, er ah I mean Joshua? :)

[Jonathan Swift]

On Jun 24, 5:12 am, Joshua <josh.kn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> So whens oggfrog getting done?

As Always:

* Real Soon Now.

Actually I would like to take Ogg Frog up again. I don't have a
specific date for doing so yet. Once I do, I will announce that I
have resumed work on it, but won't promise any specific goals until
those goals have actually been achieved.

This came as a very hard won lesson.

> Jonathan Swift

[Jonathan Swift]

I have had a very long hard day. Drove all the way to San Francisco
to attempt, but fail, to get a tour of the Varyag, the first Russian
surface warship to visit San Francisco Bay since the US Civil War.
Made the mistake of taking a load off at a fine deli called Sandwich
Shop for the wrong quantity of time. Fine deli, poor departure time;
heavy traffice all the way home now makes me seek a shotgun that I may
give my mouth a refreshing rinse.

Stopped by at Annie's, managed to convey my heartfelt apologies for
upsetting her. Made mistake of telling her I had to leave because I
was tired. Should have asked to nap on her couch instead.

The site reorg only needs a few more hours, but I'm going to have to
get some shuteye or I'll go completely bananas this time.

Jonathan Swift

[Jonathan Swift]

Hi Folks,

I had such a hard day Thursday that I slept all the way from late
Thursday night to mid-afternoon today on Saturday.

I'll be setting back in to my site reorg effort shortly, and should
have it posted by late tonight.

-- Jon

[Jonathan Swift]

> I'll be setting back in to my site reorg effort shortly, and should
> have it posted by late tonight.

I still expect to have the reorg posted by late tonight, but have no
specific ETA as to exactly when that will be other than "late
tonight".

The more I work on it, the more I find that needs to get worked on.
But at some point I'm just going to call it quits so I can post it.

The internet is down at my house, so I have to use a WiFi spot.
Something wrong with DNS. Matt said he knew how to fix it, but it is
still broken. Possibly he fixed it just for himself but not yet for
me. He's been out all day so I don't really know what was up.

Jon