Genesis.
So I have a blog now. I don’t really have much use for one, as I’m not all that interesting a person. I don’t discover new techniques or concepts, or discuss programming theory and applications, or even find amusing links or tutorials. I could start doing these things, and I’m sure maybe once and a while I might, but in order to do that, you need to have something to add to the conversation.
I’d like to at least make one post per day of class (so tuesdays-fridays), but I don’t think anyone out there really wants to read “all about little Jeffy’s day at school.” Those are precisely the type of blogs that I don’t read. That would mean that I would need to give insightful discussion regarding something learned (or not learned) that day. But then we move to the topic of “what constitutes insightful discussion?”
This blog has been created at the request of Dan (hereby known as Dan the Man), with an attempt to (i guess) inspire us to reach out and communicate with others not only in our class, but around the world. Obviously discussing course-related materials is a given, but where to draw the line? I guess time will tell, as I try to get better at collecting my thoughts.
I presume that I will also use this blog for non-educational purposes. Perhaps mini film reviews will make their way online. Over at the naature forums, there is a “20 second movie review” thread where I occasionally post; maybe I’ll begin to move those over here as a more permanent record.
I’m also hoping to figure out how to incorporate this blog onto anti-pattern’s main page. I’m pretty new to WordPress as demonstrated in my first post, so that should be an interesting goal to try and figure out. anti-pattern is in dire need of a redesign; I quickly threw up a layout just to get something online while I got the back end code working. Most of the code is fully alive now; so now I need to make it pretty.
I think most of the time I’m just going to just stop writing, instead of coming up with clever sign offs.