a little shake-up

I've spent around 1 hour labelling all my posts. In obvious, blatant and gratuitous homage to douglas adams, the labels are Life, The Universe, and Everything, because by any reasonable definition of the word enough, there can never be enough H2G2 references. And there's a little Admin label for those posts that are clearly Administrative in nature.

Now to explain the categories:
Life - Mine, obviously. As any old fool could tell you.
The Universe - Anything about the sciences, natural or social; ideas and thoughts which conceptualise molecules and people as predictable and invariant actors locked in a cosmic dance; one that is eternal, beautiful but ultimately devoid of transcendent meaning. So musings on economics, political science and linguistics would belong here alongside explorations on thermodynamics, quantum physics and the origins of life.
Everything - Anything about the humanities and arts; that which gives meaning to life. This means music, art, literature; all that which defines us as human, rather than the naked ape.

I might add sub-categories as we go along, but for now this is probably a good enough start.I should, over time, be posting more on the universe. It's fascinating stuff. really.

This is also an attempt to look at what I blog about, and think about. This blog has largely been about my life, but I do want to take it in a new direction, to look at ideas, concepts and works that have shaped the way we see ourselves and our universe. True, there's an anthropic bias in the way I've labelled the humanities as "everything", but till we discover sentient life out there, we are the only creatures capable of imbuing meaning into that which is fundamentally without meaning. And I believe that's something significant.

Of course there'll still be army and general life wankst, that's what blogs are for. This reorganisation is just an acknowledgement that there's more to life than that; and if you like, a statement of intent - that I want to use this as a platform to develop the way I think. Thinking is good; more thinking, better - that's a principle which is so simple as to be blatantly obvious, but at the same time, so simple as to be vastly underrated. 

So we'll see how things go from here. Till next time, then.