Over the last decade or so, I have created at least a dozen web sites on the Internet and various intranets, for various purposes. There was the web site about digital security: everything from encryption to archive and backup information. There was the web site that distributed software I wrote. There were three different versions of family and personal web sites. There was the web site about the Thawte Web of Trust, the ability to get free personal X.509 certificates, and how to use them. There was the web site about Casio calculators and computational experimentation in mathematics. There was the web site about Palm OS devices. There was the web site for a company I foolishly formed, that never did anything. There was even, I am ashamed to say, a blog.
Over time, these sites appeared, blossomed, stagnated, and eventually became yet more of the litter of abandoned sites on the Web. Wind whispers between the deserted buildings, leaves and debris accumulate in the doorways and crevices of peeling and shabby exteriors, the occasional yet-intact windowpane reveals only dust, a weak brown in the filtered sunlight: yet another ruin, long abandoned, of a settlement once inhabited, perhaps even thriving. The bleak record shows the only victor in this long personal struggle against chaos is attention deficit disorder.
And yet, what else is there to do?
I have the stagnant Casio site.
I have the stagnant Palm OS site.
My current hobby is the new (but not particularly lively) bizarre application notes site. It is starting small and arguably weird, but I have a plan for it, really I do.