another blog, really?
I’ve gotta be kidding you, right? I can barely keep up with this blog! Why on earth would I start another one?
Well, here’s the dealie-o. I’m writing a book, which is coming out in electronic form on my favorite technical press in a few weeks. And books need to have a place for their authors to host errata. Discussions. Follow-on projects. Those kinds of things.
Clearly, the book needs a home online. A blog or something. But to dedicate a whole site to pimping one lousy PDF is just lame. You’ve seen “buy my book” sites like that, haven’t you? It’s not a pretty sight.
I held off on starting a second blog until I felt I had something to say. Enter my friend John, who, unbeknownst to him but knownst to us, gave me just the kick in the rear I needed.
John often posts about the technical challenges he encounters at work, and it’s quite interesting to those of us who take our network services and “disks in the sky” for granted.
So it was time to get off my duff and start talking about a few of the little nuggets of software interestingness I’ve encountered in my twenty-year apprenticeship in computing.
And without further ado, I hereby break this imaginary bottle of champagne over the prow of the S.S. Let’s Play!