Many moons ago, in a land far away and a time before HTML, I had a bulletin board. V.21 satisfied me, but with V.22(bisync.) came enough bandwidth to join FidoNet. Then came HTML versions 1, 2 and even the wonders of v3, and I built myself a website. In the fullness of time I enjoyed hosting my website on different servers and different operating systems, but rarely got around to actually updating the content. Who cares about content when there are firewalls and reverse proxy servers to configure and maintain!? And so the content languished and fell into disrepair, and eventually I admitted that the site was without purpose, merit or other redeeming qualities. And it perished.
Recently, however, I have been occasioned to take up the whole SaaS kick, not because it's hot, but because it suits my circumstances and allows me to get rid of my various expensive-internet-connection-demanding, power-hungry, attention-starved poorly-backed-up servers in favor of a few shillings paid to Google.
I have noticed that, in the meantime, people have gotten all excited about blogs. Supposedly these are a new invention. I am not quite sure in what way they are new. But, whether one argues the degree of innovation entailed, I will confess that tapping words into a hosted form and clicking "PUBLISH POST NOW PLEASE!!!" is a lot more convenient than ferreting around in the html or keeping some active content running on my own box. Which is all a rather long-winded way of saying that, at least in theory, this forum should provide for slightly more frequent updates and posts than my previous incarnations of my website.
Will this prove true? Will I post anything more than nonsense here? Will the content updates actually be interesting or relevant enough to any one person for them to bother reading? Maybe. And maybe, if I am careful about it, that one person might even be someone else! Either way, it will definitely entail me finding my feet when it comes to posting stuff, and achieving a balance between posting nothing at all, and posting all manner of irrelevant data, or even widely known and otherwise available information. I am no diarist, I have never kept a journal, and Messrs Strunk & White would probably have conniptions at the verbosity which I display when I do not spend lots of time refining my words. (I won't be refining much of anything, this blogging business is for fun not profit, thus my time is limited.) So be forewarned. Be prepared for lots of nonsense and noise as I strive to find the method and the substance.
On a more technical note, my life is now run by Google. Long may they fail to be evil. They have, however, asked me to tick a checkbox if I have any "adult content", to protect the prying eyes of minors and limit their liability. God knows I don't expect to be mentioning tits and ass that much on here, but lest the urge to take me I do, in keeping with my libertarian leanings, wish to keep my posting options firmly open. So, yes, you have to click through the adult content warning: sorry about that! And who knows, now that I have set the boolean, maybe I will be motivated to talk about all manner of things...
Here endeth my first post. (now I can go test the site and see what a post will look like :-) )
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