Unquiet Desperation

I’m about to take a vacation to Kure Beach, North Carolina for a little rest, relaxation, and time with the family. Before I go, I wanted to let you know about some changes that will be coming soon to this, my precious little blog.

Unquiet Desperation is going to be shifting focus in the month of July. I’ve been using this as a personal blog for years, but I find that I want to take the time to explore new things here, and split some of my other interests off into other areas.

Unquiet Desperation: The Blog

I’ve said that I want to write essays, and my goal for this site will be to host those essays. The areas I want to cover here are:

1. Exploring living a simpler life in a rapidly-changing technological society
2. Using creative disciplines and ingenuity to make sense of and enhance the world around us
3. Examining the creative process in relationship and as a reaction to the pressures of daily life
4. Touching on the care of the soul via aesthetic experience

Unquiet Desperation: The Podcast

The renewed focus of the podcast will keep the exploratory tone of past incarnations, while veering sharply away from the well-worn geekly tropes.  I envision it as monthly exploration of a single topic, via essay, interview, music, or whatever else suits. The first episode of the new podcast will drop in late July.¹

Geeky Topics Live In The Secret Lair

The Secret Lair is a perfect outlet for  discussions about the entertainment, geekdom, and other topics I like to tackle. They belong there, not here.

Internet Memes, Video, Short Posts, Etc are Trinkets

Sure, I like to pass things along as much as the next guy. Those items will move to my Tumblr, Trinkets in a Coffee Can.

Programming Discussion

I consider this part of my personal creative life. Essays on programming will live here, as will topics in other creative disciplines, like writing or brewing.

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Along with all of this, I’m working with Mick Bradley on a new look and feel for the site, and I’m looking forward to unveiling that once we’re done.

I will be restructuring categories and such over the new month, so if you see weirdness in the feed, please excuse it. It should only be temporary.

I want to thank everyone whose feedback and friendship have inspired and enabled me to gather this focus, especially Kris Johnson, Thomas Gideon, Mur Lafferty, J.C. Hutchins, David Moore, Jay Lynn, John Cmar, Natalie Metzger, Mick Bradley, and, my ever-patient wife, Cathy.

See you all when I return from my vacation. Try not to wreck the place while I’m gone.

-Chris

1. This will include the contributions of all the folks who have sent me audio already.[back]

I’ll be working on the site a bit over the next month; I apologize in advance if you have any problems accessing it.

I’ve taken the plunge and contracted the talented Mick Bradley to help me create a look and feel that I can be happy with. We’re just in the planning stages, but so far, I’m happy with where things are going. This new theme is just something I’m playing with. I’ve found that I have a deep and abiding disdain for most WordPress themes. I’m hoping we can come up with something a little different.

He’s recommended that I upgrade to WP 3.0, and I’ll probably do that once I back everything up.  Ahhh, the bleeding edge, how I view thee with suspicion and trepidation…

Just wanted to let everyone know that I’m consolidating all of my codeshaman [at] gmail [dot]com accounts and moving them to my ctmiller.net domain. What does this mean to you?

1. Please update your address books to use christopher [at] ctmiller [dot] net as my email address. (Some of you have a different ctmiller.net email address for me. That’s cool. Keep using that one.)
2. If you have me on Google Chat or follow me on Google Reader, connect with or subscribe to the above email address instead.
3. If you’re sharing Google Docs with me, please share them with the above email as well.

Amazingly, this has nothing to do with my recent paranoia. I’m just trying to consolidate things and get organized.

Thanks!