Most people who have known me for a while know of my long and mostly fruitless attempts at organizing my life inside of a CMS tool. I'm always so eager to install the latest blog or CMS software, only to let it die on the vine days, or at best, a few weeks after I get it going. Well I'm back with Drupal 5 in hopes that I can finally keep track of life and work in a way that suits me. I still have an uneasy relationship with Drupal in that it does so much of the things I need, but I still find it kind of quirky to use. I really do believe in the development efforts behind these tools, though, and being that I'm currently at a school that purports to help design tools like this, I feel like I need to do my part to contribute to this project and maybe even provide some actual feedback this time!

The timing here is no accident. The the course I teach is also moving to Drupal so that the teaching team can more effectively work with content without getting their hands dirty or their brains scrambled by too much behind the scenes work. So, it will help me to work on my own Drupal installation while I'm also building a much bigger enterprise for a large-scale undergraduate class at UT. In addition, I'm also getting to the point where I need to commit more time to the development of my research agenda and ideas I'm having about my dissertation. Hopefully, this site will serve as my private work area and public showcase for my academic pursuits as well. Lastly, I have been putting in a great deal of time building being a network administrator in the last year, and I need to do a better job of documenting all of the work we do getting services and applications running on Gentoo Linux systems. So, this site should serve as a record holder of that work as well.

So, that's the plan anyway. We'll see what I can do.