Welcome to jeffporten.com 5.0, inaugurated in February, 2006. I’ve moved the site to WordPress, and with new software comes some new features and reorganization, if you were used to the old site.

The Blogs Formerly Known As “Portentia” and “Jeff Wing Conspiracy” have been combined. Actually, pretty much everything is now a single feed on the home page; I’m going to use WordPress categories to subdivide what I’m writing about rather than send them out on different blogs.

If you’re here just for one particular topic (i.e., you want to read me on security issues, but don’t care about Macintosh software), then feel free to bookmark me by category rather than by my home page. I’ll be looking into whether I can similarly set up multiple RSS feeds by category.

Main sections of jp.com 5.0:

About Jeff Porten: more about me, including my consulting work, professional background, and nonprofit activism.

About this site: you’re here already.

Friends of Jeff: people I know, what they do, and why you should read their websites.

Portentia: essays and other long-form pieces I have posted to my website (as opposed to quick blurbs and blogging).

Software: shareware and freeware I’ve written, demos, and technique discussions.

Jeff Wing Factions (AKA blog categories):

Americana: American history, sociology and culture.

Beltway: Washington political issues, focusing on legislation and policy.

Free Agent Nation: ruminations on self-employment, entrepreneurship, writing, and blood donation.

Inside Draws: talk of odds, gamblers, very odd gamblers, and Hold ‘Em.

Mac Guru: important things to know about the Macintosh.

Media Diet: books I’m procrastinating, movies I want to see, TV I’ve missed. Commentary on specific media artifacts (as opposed to the media at large; see Vox Populi).

Nomadism: places I’ve been, places where I am, travel issues in general.

Photoblog: I see something that amuses me, I take its picture.

Preambling: Discussions relating to providing for the common defense, promoting the general welfare, and securing the blessings of liberty. With occasional footnotes about elbow room.

Quotable: a while ago, this was its own blog. Here mostly for legacy purposes.

Red and Blue: my ongoing debates with Brian Greenberg.

Technobabble and Ubergeek: science and technology issues. Computer stuff that isn’t Macintosh-related. Technobabble is meant for the layperson; Ubergeek goes into programming techniques and more technical detail.

Vox Populi: big picture issues relating to democracy, the media, communications, and politics.

Whimsy: if I thought it was funny, it’s here.