BenHollis.net

So it’s here. There’s finally a blog on BRH.numbera.com. I had, up till a few minutes ago, harbored grand ideas of writing my own blog system from scratch, as a series of ASP.NET controls. I may still do it, but WordPress has impressed me so much that I feel I can loosen up on my convictions a bit and let some PHP code in. I’m still upset by the fact that it won’t integrate with the main BRH.numbera.com site, but a little work should at least make this look similar to the main site.

Sometime back in the late (but not too late) 90s I had an idea, and I told my friend Greg about it. “Greg,” I said, flush with my first experience in writing a database-driven website, “wouldn’t it be cool if I wrote some program that would let people keep a diary online? I mean, they could post little entries and the program could keep them as a calendar. You could even have a site where you could just sign up for a diary account, so people wouldn’t have to know how to set up a website and install software.” Greg was quick with his reply. “That’s stupid. Why would anybody ever want to keep a diary online? And who would want to read it?”

“You’re right. That is pretty stupid.”

So, I’m completely aware that I’m talking to myself right now. I’m OK with that. This is not a place for me to write poetry, or talk about my friends, or even go on about things I’ve been up to around town. I’m going to try to make sure posts aren’t about me, but about the things that might be relevant to other people. At the very least, something like “XBList has been updated with the following changes” or somesuch notification. I’ll also try to set things up so that people could subscribe to just one category of the blog, so that my ramblings about games or my experience with Windows Vista (oh, there’s a juicy post queued up right there) or whatever other thing I find interesting at the moment won’t get in the way of whatever it is they want.

Anyway, welcome, and I hope if you’re reading this post you also visit my website, for some free software if nothing else.

This entry was posted on Sunday, February 19th, 2006 at 1:44 am and is filed under BenHollis.net.