I'm blogging! I've contemplated the idea for a while, but I've finally gotten my ass in gear and started a blog :) I first heard about these things during my undergrad days (circa 2001) from a media arts teacher I'd had. I didn't quite understand the concept, nor did I realise just how popular the idea would become, so I didn't really give too much mind to what he'd said. Little did I know…As I went through college I always told myself I should start a journal. It's always cool to read old thoughts; and hell, it might turn out that someone actually finds your life entertaining. The trouble was I didn't want to actually write stuff; I mean, who "writes" anymore. I've been typing so long, I can barely remember the last time I wrote a complete sentence. Thus, it was inevitable, my journal had to be digital. So, naturally, the next road block was coming up with some good software to keep up with my thoughts. I could write my own, but that would take time, and I didn't want a journal that bad. It wasn't until years later that I realised blogging could essentially be the software I was in search of. At that point I'd considered starting a blog, but I'd managed to find another reason to put it off: I needed a place to host it. There are several sites out there who's sole purpose to provide people with a way to blog (analogous to Yahoo! giving people a way to have email), but I didn't want to use those. I think anyone with a CS degree can relate: when it comes to computing services, I'd rather do it myself. Unfortunately, this kind of attitude isn't very productive when you're unable to "do it yourself," so documenting my thoughts continued to be put on hold. Then last week I noticed a couple of friends here in the CS department had their own blogs. Being that we're like minded people, I'd known instantly that they'd used some open source software, and were probably even hosting it themselves. In asking them how/where they did it, they informed me that I didn't need my own machine or domain, all I needed was cgi (and I didn't even really need that). Realizing that my undergraduate department provided such a service, I figured I'd give this blogging thing a try. They recommended some good blogging software, and after a few days of configuration ("initial" configuration that is, as I'll probably be configuring this thing for years to come) I was off!
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