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How some pages have changed their original intention, etc

During my December of 2009 revamp of the site, it occurred to me that some pages had changed their original intention. As much as anything, this is an interesting trip into the mind of Doug, so to speak,and so I thought I would discuss it.

...on Philip K Dick

Originally fandom to PKD alone, the decision was made to expand to include Charles Dickens. Now, both of these authors are big time favorites of mine, but not necessarily particularl favorites in the sense of I blog about them constantly or what-have-you. The purpose behind picking them is the same as behind picking PKD initially. They represent the sort of books that I like to talk about, they were game changers, you can talk about them all day long, and there was a strong sense of humanity in nearly all of their writings. I expanded it to include Dickens during the Dec09 revamp partially because of the blog name becoming the the site name, and partially because I have always wanted an excuse to write more about Dickens.

...on Words

Despite being a bookworm of the most extreme order, books only took up one primary section, and had places in two other secionts ("...on PKD" and "...on Zombies"). All my reviews and library discussion and writing discussions and so forth all ended up there. When I did the revamp, I wanted to break them down into different sections. I am not 100% sure of my choices, but now there are places for "...on Libraries and Books" (meaning book culture), "...on Authors", and the expanded "...on PK Dick and Dickens" and the expanded "...on Zombies and Horror". They even show up in the "...on Science and Information" and in the "...on Life, Law, and Society" (because of copyright discussions). The original "on (the) Words (of others)" is now mostly about reviews of books, discussions of particular books and collections, and a place to list my personal reading goals and whatnot.

The Random Things

Since the website originally only had twelve or so sections, I created a page of Miscellany that would encompass what did not fit anywhere else. The end result was the "Random" page. It had bits from all over: pipes, tea, ciphers, and so forth. With the revamp, nearly every sub-topic covered in the "Random" page has been upgraded to it's own page, and so my page of random bits and things has been largely deprecated for now. It is still there, because who knows how long before I turn back to something that would fit there?