Hermetic Kabbalah

If you are new to making a website, then you will find so many hosting providers offering wizard tools to help you get up and running. Making a new site is relatively easy compared with ten years ago, twenty years ago, thirty years ago.

But are you locked in? What control do you have over the framework you are using, all these clever click-button tools? What happens when the provider goes out of business (or more likely) is absorbed into another company with a different approach?

Making the site may be easy, but keeping it going for 10 years in the face of constant technical updates and infrastructure replacements is another matter. Keeping it going for 31 years is an achievement, and I’m going to brag about it. This site is 31 years old.

I began this site in 1995, and it was carved out of a solid block of HTML using copper chisels and a grinding paste made of sand and bitter tears. Despite being a thing of consummate ugliness, it was popular.

In 2011 I obtained a solid block of PHP and Javascript and began again. I’m a one-man band who does this for love, not money, and it sufficed … for the day. It wasn’t pretty. I wrote a large quantity of new content which eventually found its way into a book. Check out my publications.

Now it is 2026 and the 2011 site was looking pathetic. Network Solutions was charging me an arm and a leg for hosting it. I had to migrate the domain, the content, and throw it all into WordPress. I’d never used WordPress.

It is not a thing of beauty … but it will suffice. There will be bugs and broken links, but I will catch them. I see that many items are far too long and TLDR – I need to condense. Navigation needs work – I’ll fix it.

A lot has happened in my life (four books, grandchildren, turning seventy-five). I have things to say. I expect to post new content.

Please look in from time to time – I promise it won’t be boring.