What is this website?

This website has one author — Dee Newcum. It's my personal notes about anything and everything.

It's part blog, part personal wiki. Some people would call it a "bliki". [1] [2]

Who is the target audience?

Most frequent readers listed first:

1) Myself. To some extent, I treat this as my personal bookmarks folder, as a mind map.

2) Search engines, and people who visit because of search engines. While most pages on this site are unpolished, there are a few that are highly polished and deserving of broader attention. The "recent changes" style of the frontpage is good for Google juice. A lot of random visitors wash up on these shores, look at one page, and leave.

3) There are a few individuals who are interested enough to check back periodically, using it as something like Facebook or Twitter, as a way to keep up on what I'm doing at the moment.

What are your interests?

I have broad and capricious interests. I'm a competent woman, an autodidact, a dilettante.

I'm an engineer. My career is in software engineering, so content skews heavily in that direction. I dabble in structural/mechanical engineering and safety engineering.

I've long been a proponent of hard science and empiricism. But recently I've grown more interested in social sciences — psychology, linguistics, semiotics, queer theory, geopolitics, and history. My favorite book is "Guns, Germs, and Steel" because it is wide-ranging and cross-disciplinary.

How are readers supposed to navigate?

Here, readers are encouraged to modify the URL. For instance, if you landed on this page:
paperlined.org/apps/wifi/equipment/equipment_I_own.html
you can see related content by chopping off the filename, and looking at other files in the same directory:
paperlined.org/apps/wifi/equipment/

Directory pages might look a little unfriendly. The default sort order is most-recently-modified at the top. You can sort by name instead, by clicking on the "name" heading.

Why don't you use a real wiki?

When I started this website, wikis didn't exist yet.

Also, I prefer "bare metal" tools. I want to use the traditional grep/xargs/find toolset to manage my content.