At times I get the feeling that life would be simpler if I were to just totally remove all references of myself from the internet. This is, of course, pointless… once you have as much material out there as I do over the number of years I’ve been active within these “tubes”, it’s really impossible to wipe every trace of yourself from existence. But this does not mean that I do not long for it at times. I sometimes get in a real mood and want to “remove myself” for lack of a better term. Yesterday I totally wiped this website from my servers; files, database, everything. I just felt so compelled to do this and I really don’t have any idea why.
So this evening I’ve rebuilt everything (and upgraded to WordPress 2.2 to boot) along with the beginnings of a new design. Really a fresh look was probably all that was needed. I do wonder whether others in my profession have the same periodic compulsion for digital annihilation that I experience…