At that point the old Telstra BigBlog would go up in smoke, so if I wanted to keep the content out there somewhere, When the Movie Came to Town was an obvious section to slot into a personal website, but what else was going to go there?
The Novel that eventually became Dirty Work at the Crossroads was another obvious candidate, and since I spend a fair chunk of my waking hours reading and listening to music with the odd glass of wine, there were three other likely contenders when it came to content, but I needed some sort of organizing metaphor...
The most obvious one was to make a visit to the website like turning up at the front door of the actual Little House of Concrete. When you do, you’ll be invited in, and will probably, depending on the nature of the visit, end up in Hughesy’s office, the living room or the courtyard.
If you’re here to talk technology or music you’ll end up in the office, since that’s where the computer is, along with my CD collection and library.
If you’ve dropped by for a chat over a glass of wine, maybe with something on TV (a DVD, an Allman Brothers webcast or a sporting event) you’ll end up in the Living Room.
A chat without AV accompaniment, on the other hand, will more than likely take place in the Courtyard, so that seemed the logical place for storytelling and personal reminiscences.
Right, so that’d do for starters.
And, for a while, do is what it did, up to the point where the sheer quantity of content, classified into various subheadings, started to clutter up the navigation bars at the top of the iWeb window.
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