Thanks for visiting. I am just beginning my online journal, web log,
or "blog" if you'd like to call it that. Right now, I don't
really know what form this will take, how long or how often I will post to
it, or what topics I'll cover most. I hope to make what I write somewhat
interesting to someone other than myself, but whether or not I am
successful will be judged by the audience - of course.
Like anyone else writing as a hobby, I'll write on topics that
interest me: computing and software, science and engineering, religion, politics, sports. You
know, all the safe, non-controversial stuff.
I won't pretend at this point that I have anything profound to share
with the world. Again, the audience will be the judge. I hope that
people reading this will find it interesting, informative, challenging
and maybe even insightful. Attempting to write something on a somewhat
regular schedule that has those qualities will certainly be challenging
for me. I'm not a professional writer. What writing I do for my regular
vocation would be considered technical writing, and no one would find it
interesting. Informative, perhaps - if you need to deal with the
software I've developed. Interesting - definitely not.
As an aside, I'm developing this site on my own, with some help from
FrontPage 2000. For the present, I am not using any of the blogging
packages, even though I'm certain that they would make my life easier in
many ways. For now, I'm enjoying hacking the HTML myself. I view doing
this partly as a learning experience, and though I'm proficient with
HTML already, there's always new things to discover. Keeping in touch
with the underlying code allows me complete control over the "look
and feel" of the site, and I just plain like playing around with
the HTML. One thing I'll do now and then is include some pages on the
site with cool dynamic HTML effects, just because I'm a propeller head,
and I think it's fun.
I'm still working through constructing the site, and it will take me
some time to get it the way I'd like it. I don't know yet if I will be
able to (or if I want to) include a commenting capability. The
interaction with readers (if there are any) is appealing to some degree,
but on the other hand, dealing with belligerent or irrational people is
not.
10/8/2003
