I started blogging around 2001, mostly just to test the code I was writing. I think everyone wrote their own blogging platform once or twice back then and I was no exception. My first was an exercise in XML, SQL, ASP, and Flash. My second was mostly the same but with a few more features.
By 2003/2004, I realized that writing another blogging platform was a waste of my time so I started using a few existing platforms for various blogs. I eventually settled on 2: One "professional" blog that contained tech/code-related content and one "personal" blog that had everything else. I was a freelance developer at the time and it seemed to work out as planned, more or less, until I took a fulltime job in 2005.
Once I started that job, I slowly started blogging only on the personal site. I was working on some very cool tech at the job (mobile video delivery in 2005 was a blast!) but didn't feel like I could or should write about those things outside of work. Around 2008, I consolidated both sites to one Wordpress blog. Around 2012, I pretty much stopped blogging at all thanks to that itch being scratched in other ways, mostly Facebook and Twitter.
This is my last week at the job I started in 2005, I start a new job next Monday. I feel like this is a new beginning, blah blah blah, but yeah, I do. A lot of things have changed since I started that job but my desire to write words on the web has not. Twitter is too short, Facebook is too... I don't know,
something... so I've decided to crank up this site and see how it goes this time. It always seems like a good idea for the first week or so.
