Scatterthought.com is designed primarily to be a reflection of my thoughts and feelings. As I’m influenced by the world around me, so too is the content of this site. Most of this comes through in my scatterthoughts, some of it in my photo galleries, and parts of it in the many links I post to sites that interest me. The end result is a fairly accurate portrayal of what’s going on in my head (though better organized).

Prior to becoming Scatterthought.com, this site was hosted at rpwong.com, and my scatterthoughts were known as random thoughts. For two-and-a-half years, I recorded random thoughts that reflected my life and times. As such, Scatterthought.com is best summed up by this quote from the random thought published on July 19, 2003:

It would be pretty easy to misinterpret my random thoughts if you don’t know me or don’t come to this site regularly. You might come here for the first time and just think that I use this space to complain. Or maybe you’ll think that I’m way too silly. That I’m too positive or too negative or whatever.

There are two factors involved: my mood when I’m writing the thought (which directly impacts on the writing tone) and your mood as you read it (which determines how openly you interpret the meaning). So, if someone comes here and reads one thought, or maybe even the last few, they might get the wrong idea about what’s going on here.

And there’s not really a lot that I can about it. If visitors want, they have access to over two years of my random thoughts, as well as the Best of Year One and Year Two collections. If you want to get an idea about who I am, that’s the best way to go about it. If you don’t care to, that’s your choice.

This site took a turn for the dramatic in August 2003, when my four-year relationship came to an abrupt end. Struggling to deal with my emotions, I wrote a neverending stream of random thoughts on the subject. Publishing my thoughts and feelings for the world to see has made me feel more complete than ever. As such, I felt that it was time to abandon the old domain in favour of a new one.

In the fall of 2005, Scatterthought began its third life. After four-plus years in straight HTML and JavaScript, this site is now managed via Wordpress.

There’s so much available on the Web nowadays that it’s difficult to offer something different from everyone else. The only uniqueness we can really offer up is ourselves, and that’s what I’m trying to do with this site. You may or may not find it interesting, but you won’t find it anywhere else on the Web.

Thanks much,

Russ Wong