when i started it, i was inspired by the idea that i could take the ideas out of my head and put them in a place where people could stumble upon them. not so much because my ideas are extra-special-great or anything, but because in the aggregate, the weblogs i was reading at the time had this eerie tendency to touch upon subjects that i happened to be finding intriguing or confusing independently. and i wanted to contribute to that.

have i wrote before that i feel guilty doing domestic chores?

really. graduate school makes you feel bad about putting away the dishes when you should be studying for a final exam. not just that i don’t have the time, but that doing the chore is actually below me. that i see the five minutes i spend putting away the dishes with every domestic chore i’d ever perform over the course of my life, and it amounts to such an obscene amount of time that i couldn’t possibly have any time to do anything else in life.

so i put away the dishes anyway.

i remember once my mom bought a wreath to hang on the living room wall, and this required the whole room be repainted and rearranged to coordinate.

well, the other day i wrote up a little document outlining the naming conventions i’ve accumulated after working with databases for several years (which i’m hoping to follow with some writeups on database design and basic database concepts).

as a total aside: such a topic might seem either anal or inconsequential, but as it happens, successive layers of a database application get built on top of those initial name and design decisions, so changing the name of something after the fact can have painfully vast repercussions. hence, the importance of naming conventions.

anyway, i wrote this document, and so decided to rejigger my homepage so it had a place to live. and in doing so, i’ve given better light to some pre-existing things in my webspace like my sils classwork, my web notes, etc.