After a brief interlude, this site is now back up. I use a server in Brian's home to host this blog. Brian gives some reasons for the temporary outage here. This, of course doesn't explain why I don't have at least one real blog entry queued up ready to go. Let's just say, that Brian's machine wasn't the only thing under the weather lately...

It is truly amazing! My blog has been up since Saturday and has been getting trickle of traffic. Get a mention on ChrisAn's blog and watch it go! We should coin a new term:

The simplegeek effect - the massive increase in blog readership because it was mentioned on www.simplegeek.com.

I sort of knew that would happen. Chris has a huge following. My passing comment about my blog to him this morning did have an ulterior motive. Thanks, Chris, for taking the hint and the nice words.

Even though I have been quoted as saying I would never have a blog, welcome to my blog. It teaches me never to say never.

If this blog looks familiar it is because I ripped off the implementation from Chris Anderson. Like Chris, I will not restrict my self just to work life but delve into other topics as well. I plan to keep them well separated so if you don't want my personal version of a "sump-pump" story, relax, you can filter it out.

I had visions of my first (non-introductory) post being earth shattering, enlightening, and page-turning riveting example of clear technical writing about an extremely interesting topic. Well, as it turns out, it is a rant. Oh, well; maybe I can be enlightening later...