First!

Ok, I’m not gonna lie.  I’ve tried this blogging thing on multiple occasions in the past.  But really, I think I’ve finally got the foundation set up for a blog that I’ll actually enjoy maintaining.  Part of the problem has been finding the right platform — my first attempt at blogging was probably with LiveJournal back in 2001 or so. Since then I’ve tried multiple platforms such as rails-based Typo and Mephisto. They’re all well and good and everything, but if you’re anything like me, maintaining the platform will suck the life right out of you.

So here we go again. This time I’m drinking the WordPress kool-aid and I don’t feel the least bit bad about it. Who cares if it’s implemented in PHP? I used to. Not anymore. It’s about simplicity, right? The whole point is to document history and share information. Oh, and self-promote yourself shamelessly of course. Who wants to bother with the backend? Nope, not me.

It sure is ugly. I have a plan for that though. A younger me would have spent his next few weeks wrestling with Dreamweaver and Photoshop trying to work out something somewhat presentable. This time around though I figure I’ll just leave it to the professionals and post RFPs on RentACoder and 99 Designs.

One big challenge was just finding a name for the blog that was brandable. I was stuck on that one for a while, then finally had the idea to go through The Jargon File running massive amounts of WHOIS lookups. Seeing as how I plan on discussing the complexities of managing and developing technology, I think I’ve finally found something both memorable and fitting.

So with nothing further, welcome to Software Bloat.

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