behind me lies a trail...

I've always been fascinated by the trail (or footprint) we leave behind us on the internet. Like our lives, our trail slowly fades. Our edits to Wikipedia are edited over, our homepages are purged, our comments on bulletin boards and message boards are pushed further and further into history, links to our blogs become sparse and our Google rank drops. So it goes. While making changes to this blog, I like to change the homepage to something unexpected, I choose Dostoyevsky's passage about the Grand Inquisitor over Cervantes' about fighting windmills thought by the hero to be giants because I like Dostoyevsky's more, but for the symbolism, perhaps the last great post of corneconomics should have been Cervantes. Instead a mere mention must do, corneconomics left the game a bit crazy and with a Quixiotic fixation on fighting windmills. While making some changes, I put the blogger posts aside, and I don't feel like putting them all back on. I have them on my harddrive, if you want a post, email me. The fabulous internet archive seems to have held on to some of them as well. Someday I hope to return to the game and write about research, the location I have announced before. In the meantime, my time in Chicago is dedicated to higher causes, and a draft of a wedding blog is up. We set the date this week, should I send professor M an invitation as an olive branch?

Peace,
Shane Murphy