Asymptomatic

I moved the bulk of Red Alt to the Asymptomatic server last night because I got tired of that unmanaged server going down. The Asymptomatic server is managed, and so should get better attention when things go awry.

This also allows me to house a more permanent subversion repository (if that means anything to you) for all of the PHP development I do around here.

On top of that, it paves the way for a few minor changes at Red Alt, mostly revolving around the navigation and a wiki upgrade. Many of the navigation links there don't work because I'm usually off doing something else rather than hooking them up. I'm going to go through all of those and make them all work....

After my attendence of the blogging meetups yesterday, it has become abundantly apparent that I need to produce a business card sot hat I can share my identity with people in the real world. Unfortunately, I'm not exactly sure what sort of identity I want to portray.

It has been a long time since I have used the Midnight Circus domain for anything. And if you've received email from me, you might wonder why it comes from Midnight Circus and not Asymptomatic. The history is long and complicated - well, ok, not so much.

Back when I started on the web, I was creating a resource page for the White Wolf role-playing game, Vampire: The Masquerade. If you know me really well (most people who visit the site don't know too much about my real-life work, which is a very strange phenomenon to me and worthy of a post all on its own) then you know that I have worked with some folks at White Wolf for various reasons, and have actually been given a small credit in a poorly received supplement. Nonetheless, the tabletop gaming industry was a significant part of my life at the time.

Since Midnight Circus was created as a dedicated role-playing resource, I wanted a site to write about things that were unrelated to that topic. Out of that need, Asymptomatic evolved and become what it is today. The Midnight Circus web site has long since been taken offline, as my disenchantment with White Wolf and their products grew, but I have been using the domain for my email for so long that I couldn't change it now - it's part of my online identity.

As my online endeavors expanded, I've created a couple more sites. Particularly well known these days is Red Alt, which is a blog software resource site on which I host a good bit of my open source work. And through my work at Red Alt, I was able to jockey a position with Shimmer Studio, where my freelance work is brokered.

So the question for me becomes, What identity am I trying to portray? Do I want people to see my personal site, or my professional sites? Which of those should they see? Or should I create a whole new brand under Midnight Circus (an idea I had been toying with for a long while but never actually completed) to work from? more

I've been slowly amassing equipment for use in producing podcasts.

Over the summer, I acquired a small mixing board and a decent dynmaic microphone to use for recording Almost Friday for the Blogathon. That worked out reasonably well. I hooked everything through the mixing board into the guitar monitor and out to an M-Audio USB audio capture box. The sound produced wasn't bad.

For Christmas Berta got me a Fostex MR-8 8-track digital recorder. It's a fine little piece of equipment, and very portable, since you can run in from batteries.

The kit it came in provided a bag, another dynamic microphone, and some cable, which was plenty to get started recording things on the road. I was considering doing a kind of live-recorded podcast from the next meetup in Philly, in which anyone who wanted a turn talking could say great things about themselves, or Philly, or their blogs.

But there has got to be more to this podcasting thing than people blithering on about stuff that has no interest, right? more

I changed some things around here. Hopefully, there is a little more functionality exposed, particularly on the archive pages.

If you're reading on RSS, please take a moment to stop by and see what you think of the look of the place.

If you notice any weirdness (yes, I am aware of some things, but not everything) please do leave it in this post's comments (which seem like they're working) or if those don't work, via email. Thanks!

I was looking through my backlog of unpublished crap, and noticed that I had quite a few things that were very nearly completed, but I had never put the final polish on them for publication.

Hey, some of this stuff is good!

Pick one, and maybe I'll get around to it sooner:...