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site redesign

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Tokyo, 2008.03.30

It seems that every six to eighteen months, I redesign this website from scratch for one reason or another. In mid 2007, it wasn't so much a redesign as a wholesale reconstruction, following the catastrophic loss of the content database that drives the site (it seems that my then host was incapable of running the MySQL service properly).

This time, I've decided that the ~400-500 page site that's currently up (though much of it remains unnavigable) is irrelevant, outdated or poorly written. So I'm taking it offline, and reorganizing the site along some basic concepts. There will be only five sections, to keep the navigation system reasonable, and each section will only consist of photo collections and articles that I've revised or edited.

The new sections will be:

-articles

-adventures

-photos

-creations

-about me

rand()m quote

If I had my life to live over, I'd try to make more mistakes next time. I would relax, I would limber up, I would be crazier than I've been on this trip. I know very few things I'd take seriously any more. I'd certainly be less hygenic... I would take more chances, I would take more trips, I would scale more mountains, I would swim more rivers, and I would watch more sunsets. I would eat more ice cream and fewer beans. I would have more actual troubles and fewer imaginary ones. Oh, I've had my moments, and if I had to do it all over again, I'd have many more of them, in fact I'd try not to have anything else, just moments, one after another, instead of living so many years ahead of my day. If I had it to do all over again, I'd travel lighter, much lighter than I have. I would start barefoot earlier in the spring, and I'd stay that way later in the fall. And I would ride more merry-go-rounds, and catch more gold rings, and greet more people and pick more flowers and dance more often. If I had it to do all over again - but you see, I don't.

—Jorge Luis Borges