One thing which intermittently bothers me about Running After My Hat is that it’s not about anything in particular.

So you show up here, one way or another, and you say to yourself, Huh? How in the hell am I supposed to find what I’m interested in — or even find out if I’ll be interested at all?

Simple answer: use the list of categories in the left-hand menu; clicking on a category will provide you with a list of all posts which (according to me, anyhow) fall under that topic. A couple of points about this list, however:

1. Categories are not mutually exclusive. A given post may be (usually is) assigned to more than one category.
2. Every now and then I add a new category. After I’ve done that, I recall an earlier post which might belong to that category. Do I then revisit the post and assign it to that category, as well as any others? Naaaaah.

Translation: If you are really determined to luxuriate in the full breadth of the Running After My Hat experience, you will have to read, uh, pretty much everything.

Complicated answer: What’s here falls into one of two big heaps:

1. Transient stuff that I write for the blog, which is where most of the confusion probably comes from. That’s because what will interest me day to day is seldom predictable, even (or especially) by me. To understand the way this stuff is organized, you may as well go back and read the simple answer above.
2. More, uh, permanent stuff which exists in some form outside the blog but is generally “pointed to” somewhere on Running After My Hat. For instance:

This page itself will likely grow, shrink, and/or mutate into some entirely different form over time.