I had a wordpress blog for years and took totally the wrong approach to it, trying to update it regularly even though I didn’t really have all that much I wanted to say, so it became clogged full of unreadable, embarrassing crap. Thus came the day when I could no longer bear the thought of it being there on the internet, where people could see it, and I mothballed it. (It’s still viewable here, if you must.)
Eventually, though, I became tired of throwing together ad hoc pages whenever I wanted to use the internet to show something to somebody, and when I finished creating a wordpress installation for a client, I decided to take a moment to install it again on my webserver and start from scratch. And get get over the embarrassment of an archive link list that starts in 2008. But a professional web programmer really should have, you know, a website, it seems.
I expect the design to mutate pretty actively for a while here. It’s not as if I need to project and protect a brand, after all. Actually, I had been planning on using django for this, as a learning exercise, etc , but I decided to break that out into a separate step. Too often I overload tasks, hoping to kill many birds with just the one stone, and then the whole thing becomes too daunting, I dither, and nothing gets done. So, with the one step at a time philosophy, here’s this, an essentially unstyled but, crucially, extant weblog.