Why does dA still think I'm 30 even though it knows I was born on the 26th of May, 1978? I remember there being a setting for age somewhere, despite there also being a setting for DOB, but I can't even find that now.

Sometimes I think deviantART should focus more on its user interface...

EDIT: Found it. There's a little arrow in the box where it says '30', and that brings up an 'edit' link, and that's where you change your age. Obviously this still doesn't explain why it doesn't just calculate my age from my date of birth.

Also unexplained: Why does it take three clicks to get from my profile to the page where I can edit this entry? Why isn't there just a direct 'Edit' link on the entry itself?

I have a rather large web site - [link] - cobbled together over the course of about a decade, with diverse content and no real coherency to the same thing. I've been planning on overhauling it radically for quite some time, thinking I'll probably migrate most of it to Drupal, but I don't really know Drupal yet... [link] contains my efforts to date. It seems to be much harder to get started with than WordPress, which I know reasonably well, and which I already use for three active, bloggy sub-sites: [link] for general things that fascinate me, [link] for my sculptures, and [link] for my generative art.

So I have a few things bouncing around in my head here...
(1) How can I bring a sense of coherence to the whole site? Can I do that at all, in fact? And is it worth it? Should I maybe bring all my content under the rubric of one of the blogs? Should I add another one for photography? Should I design myself a logo?
(2) Should I keep plugging at Drupal? How long will it take me to get something together that I can really use for everything I currently have in static HTML pages?
(3) Is the current shape of my site actively putting off potential employers? Is there too much of me in there? And if so, should I make a separate, 'rofessional' site? And if so, which profession(s) should it be aimed at?!

As you can see, quite a mess of stuff in there. You guys are all creative, right? Do many of you have your own web site? If so, how do you manage the personal/creative/professional boundaries, if you respect them at all?

Hmm, probably about time I updated this journal, isn't it?

I dunno, since my last post loads of things have happened, but perhaps they are best summed up in these three other blog thingies:

*Oolong's Long Oo, in which I generally ramble about things that make me go 'oo'.
*Oolong's Zoo, in which I talk about sculptures, and polymer clay, and things like that.
*Oolong's Brain Workings, in which I try to explain my PhD and my ongoing research, partly to help it make sense to me.

I've just been told that I'm going to get the full production grant from Alt-W to develop Resonata, my fun toy/interactive teaching tool about waves and especially resonance. This'll allow me to spend about six weeks working on it full time, which I reckon is about what I need to do the things I want to do with it, and also buy a legal copy of Flash and print and distribute promotional material.

Yay!

*dances*