My First Blog™

So I’ve installed my first ever blog. What has this accomplished so far? Not a lot, however I am impressed by:

  • The swishness of the AJAX-powered editing window, with its resize and raw HTML editing, etc.
  • The overall speed and cleanliness of the WordPress interface

Yes, WordPress is very impressive. And Free! For the very briefest of moments I considered just signing up at blogspot or something, but I quickly came to my senses – if this is worth doing then it’s worth doing well!

It never ceases to amaze me how people rush to outsource applications that they devote a lot of time and effort to using. It starts with their email, journals and blogging, and now it looks like it may even go as far as word processing and other basic office tasks.

Well, that might work for some people, but it just doesn’t sit well with me. I’m a geek who likes open source software; I can do all this for myself, and not have to rely on other parties and their incompetence. At least when this breaks I’ll only have myself to blame.

I think Rick Moen said it best, so no need for a lengthy rant by me.

Anyway, I can make no promises that this blog will be kept updated, or that it will be interesting even if it is. I intend it to be a place where I can write my opinionated rants on technology (particularly the Internet and computing), politics, science and my everyday life.

Also look for more Strugglers blogs to be aggregated at Planet Strugglers! (Which doesn’t yet exist, so don’t bother)

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