While I was trimming my bangs this morning, I wondered how my future caregiver will know how I like my bangs cut, if I’m unable to articulate this. I think about this sort of thing often. Johnny and I both have strong preferences about a lot of things, and if either of us is gone and whatever caretaker the survivor has doesn’t know, then we have to put up with stuff up with which we’d rather not put.

I have reason to suspect I’ve already incurred brain damage. Johnny says similar things. Who will know? How will they know?

I come from technical support and we use knowledgebases for stuff like this. I thought, well, I could do a KB of me. Knowing that wikis are usually best for this sort of thing, I did a one-click install of MediaWiki for this.

Big frickin mistake.

Sure, I could learn to use this, but hell, it would be a full-time job. I hate installs like this, kits that are so complex and customizable that you have to make it your vocation in order to work with it at all. Try piwigo sometime. It’s monstrous. Joomla is like this too.

I’m not saying they’re bad. I’m saying they’re not for people like me. MediaWiki has manuals for people at so many levels of participation, they infer that you need at least one sysadmin, at least one developer, at least one editor, at least one author etc. etc. etc. This is just a selfish little project for me. I’m not gathering a team for this!

What I want is a keyword-searchable encyclopedia of myself. I want to be able to write articles and stubs. I don’t think it’s a steep order.

Update: I’ve decided this blog can be that KB. It’s searchable enough.