In the twenty-odd years since the Internet was invented by physicists at CERN, I've considered more than a handful of times keeping a blog. It's a difficult thing to digest. Anyone who takes writing seriously, whether or not he sees himself as a writer, wants to be interesting or important — to be read. But I've read blogs, a lot of them, and in my judgment the majority of them ab initio serve primarily the needs and concerns of the author. I have no cause to think that I'm unlike every other Johnny Come a-Bloggin' in the nooks and folds of the webosphere. So I ask myself: how do you distinguish a gratuitous and self-serving will to self-publish from actually having something to say? These are the thoughts that have held me back for well over a decade.
Well, I'm going to find out — because on the other hand, I have a lot of things that I forget. I've begun keeping these things better in the form of notes kept on servers, but after the time I've spent acquiring these nuggets, it would be nice for them to be more searchable, and thereby more accessible. And let's be fair: while these things might not be very interesting to very many people, they might well be interesting to a few who can save time by finding an idea or technique already written up. I owe the Internet People an enormous debt, so let's see if I can start to pay up.
To begin, I've imported posts from a blog I kept officially (for work) in another life. A couple of them are recipes I still look for sometimes, and I don't know how long the keepers of that life will keep them around. So I'll just give them a home here as they are.
But coming up, I'm going to see if I can just write up all the little things that I stumble into or think up, in hope that it will at least be useful to me one day, and maybe as well to someone else.
Let's go.