Project.* is essentially meant to be some kind of blog-wiki hybrid. In reality, it is about the third reincarnation of my personal blog. I have maintained a website of some since midway through high school. My blog has mostly been the blog about blogging type of blog which is why I decided to disband the last version of it. After the decommissioning of Lucid Speculation however, I found that I missed tinkering with it every once in a while. Plus, it kept my web knowledge somewhat fresh. At this juncture, I had a dilemma. I wanted a website, but had no content for it. So I let it brew on the back burner of my mind for a good while.
The answer struck me about two weeks later. You see, I am a person who strives for practicality. I believe it is what drives me to do IT work. So a blog about nothing really kind of bothers me a bit. True, it serves the purposes mentioned above, but that is not enough to justify the maintenance of it in my mind. So when the back burner in my mind finally got hot, my job popped out as part of the solution to my conundrum.
I have found in the beginning of my IT career that there are a lot of unique little tricks to solve problems. The problems requiring these tricks come up just far enough a part to forget how you solved them the first time. Then you have to go back through the combination of troubleshooting and goggling to re-derive your answer. This situation answers my question of content. I decided to bring about Project.* to serve as my personal trick repository. It is cleaner than a folder full of txt files and less complicated than one note. I can also take the opportunity to let out frustrations about technology every now and again.
So, that about sums it up. I feel like the name has at least, in some sense, justified it self with out me needing to explain it. At this point, I could also try to justify why I chose a blog/wki instead of just a wiki or just a blog or some other creature of the web, but, I do not think it is really worth the effort so happy blog/wiki reading. I hope that my trial and error approach to IT can be of benefit to someone besides myself.