Beginnings
Friends and neighbors, citizens of the cybersphere, I too am now a blogger. I've been interested for some time in the phenomena but being a selectively lazy man, I haven't done it. Last week I listened to a piece on KPBS in San Diego (via their audio stream) about blogging. Mitch Wagner, who I know from online various places, was a guest and talked about his blog, 24 hour drive-thru. I remained curious but yesterday found Bill St. Clair's Emacs blog mode BlogMax and that was all it took. Barrier to entry now leaped.
In these first few days, I'll tell you a little about me. I have been doing something similar via my newsgroups on SFF Net and Dueling Modems with an itermittent diary. Perhaps once I get rolling I'll extend BlogMax to automatically post to those groups. Wouldn't that be something? This blog will probably be a little less personal than those groups just because of the nature of things. When you know you are addressing a crowd, things are different.
Quick synopsis, and then we'll call this entry good. I'm still working with the key bindings right next to me - I haven't entered the "Emacs zen" of this mode yet. I am married to Darlene, a PhD student at Georgia Tech. I'm a software engineer, working today for a computer security firm in Atlanta. I got my BS in Chemistry at Georgia Tech and my MS in Computer Science at The University of Louisiana at Lafayette (USL when I was there). I did a science fiction interview program called Reality Break for many years. I'm currently collecting some of those interviews into an ebook series for Fictionwise. I did a lot of work for WREK 91.1 FM, the Georgia Tech radio station. I'll enumerate some of it later (because it was very cool.) I did that work whilst looking for a job after getting laid off by the evil bastards at Intertrust, even though we delivered them a Secure publishing system on time and under budget. Oh well.
That's enough for now. Can't shoot the works with the first entry. Maybe by the next entry I'll edit the templates so this looks not quite so identical to every other BlogMax site. L'chaim!