Epistemographer

I’ve had this domain for close to 10 years now, a decade in which I’ve moved from MovableType to Wordpress and from one theme to another countless times. Aside from the pleasure of rearranging deck chairs, I never really found satisfaction in the themes themselves; nothing ever seemed to fit the way I wanted things to look. Ultimately, I’m not a web designer, in the same sense as I’m not an illustrator - the finished product that my fingers are able to craft never comes close to what’s in my head.

Lucky me, then, that Khoi Vin and Allan Cole went ahead and created Basic Maths. $30 and a tiny bit of tweaking later (sorry for my bastardizations, guys), and I’ve got a blog that represents the way I like information to look: stark and dense. It’s a little weird to have bought an off-the-rack wordpress theme (I keep thinking of the cookie-cutter avatars in Neil Stephensen’s Snow Crash ), but it feels comfortable enough and beats agonizing over a blank canvas.

Oh, and please pardon the mess while I clean up categories and other bits of residual debris….