Okay so this is the inaugural post for my blog. For those of you who may not be familiar with the “blog”, it is short for “weblog”. I’m still not sure if I’m gonna keep using the term on the site because it’s kind of seventh-grade-girl-ish. I might end up going with something more manly like “journal.”  Yeah, that’s much sexier. But that’s irrelevant really. The basic idea is that it’s kind of like a diary that anyone with access to the internet can read.

I don’t know how many people will actually read this with any regularity, but I’ll try to keep it updated for those who do. Plus this will give my website some regularly changing content.  I made this whole blogging script in about four hours, although it’s kind of crude right now.  I didn’t use any high-tech “databases” or “SQL queries” to do this, just PHP and ASCII text files.  Take that, America!  Right now functionality includes the following: print the posts from the last thirty days.  That’s about it.  Eventually I’ll have an archive browser, but I’ve got thirty days before that’ll be needed so I think we’re good.  More immediately important is some means of posting without writing a text file and uploading it.

I’m not sure how much I’ll end up writing here, since I’m normally not the type to share anything of importance with any but my closest of acquaintances, and even then with reluctance. But then again I don’t even know what I’ll talk about here. A lot of my life now revolves around work, and I’m scared to mention anything about work here since I signed an NDA and I’m legally prevented from discussing anything that could be considered a “company secret.” Not that I think anyone is going to read my posts and subsequently overthrow my company, but its best to be safe... I’m also not sure what kind of format this will end up taking.  I’m trying not to copy the design of Garrison’s log too much, but that’s going to be largely unavoidable.  But in my defense, he borrows from Penny-Arcade somewhat... at least that whole italicized-song-quote-at-the-end-of-the-post part...

I suppose that’s enough for a first post.