Tech stuff
When the World Wide Web was in its infancy we were all very idealistic about how it would be used. Most of the early sites were universities and for a while academia ruled. Tim Berners-Lee of course was an academic and envisioned the web as an information management system. When I brought up the first web server at Southern Oregon University the earliest content was from professors posting their research papers.
Many people, including myself, are fleeing Facebook and starting to use Bluesky. Bluesky is nice, but in it's efforts to be a reincarnation of the old Twitter it has imposed a 300 character post limitation. So if I want to write anything of substance I need to do it here, and then link to it on Bluesky. The upside of that is that I can also link from other platforms, like FB.
Started using Twitter at work and it sort of grew on me. Follow me at http://twitter.com/soulieb
Gave in to overwhelming pressure and joined Facebook. I've got it set up so that my tweets will go to Facebook if I want them to.
I decided to use Drupal for the whole site, not just the family pictures.