I have been blogging since early 2001, initially on jmac.org using software I wrote myself, and moving over to LiveJournal not long after.
Several factors have conspired this year to encourage me to carry my blog back to my own domain. Not least among these is my renewed appreciation for Movable Type, the blogging software that released a lovely new version this year. I learned the ropes with MT when setting up The Gameshelf's website last month, and quickly became a fan.
This is a personal journal of the sort I call a ham-sandwich blog: topics range from sincere attempts at engaging public interest, to announcements and discussions of recent personal and professional projects, to entirely trivial discourses as to what I had for lunch. I tag all writing with gusto, so (once I build up some momentum) please avail yourself of the tag cloud to find more interesting topics.
(Leftover sausage and potatoes, incidentally.)
Right now, the visual theme of this blog is one of Moveable Type's defaults, based on the Boston skyline. (Don't ask me why some swan boats appear to have broken free of the Public Garden to toodle around on the Charles, but it's nice they're included.)
Thanks for reading, and enjoy your stay!
Testing a comment using my LJ ID.
Is there a feed for comments? I like those.
Now that I can leave comments - for the moderation queue, anyway:
The Swan Boats are making a bid for freedom. Wise choice!
(Also: why did the designer of that pretty skyline leave off the prettiest - arguably the only pretty - building Boston has?? *sigh*)
I dunno! I bet someone's made a plugin for it. I agree it'd be a neat figure... will sniff around.
This is another test comment to see if email notification works, yet. Ping!!
Which building is that? (I am not apt enough to have my own city's skyline memorized...)
I was actually bummed that the Citgo sign ain't there, but can understand the hesitancy of a commercial product's artist to plop another company's logo in the middle of a design. The swan boats make up for it.
Another damn comment test.