First Post

Hi everyone,

I've had a few different blogs over the years. I haven't shared them with all that many people. I guess some things just felt too personal for me to share with people I had to live with on a daily basis. I mean: there are questions and thoughts you should keep to yourself. This blog will be for all those other thoughts that I feel comfortable sharing with the rest of the world, which is much more than it was a few years ago. I guess that's growing up: I've figured some things out, and I am now much more self-confident that I used to be.

I am not entirely sure how I will divide my blogging activities. It seems I would need a personal blog to post random personal ramblings, pictures and videos - which is the purpose of the blog you are reading now. I would also need one for technology-oriented discussions, so as to keep the two separate for those people who care about me but don't give a damn about network attached storage and triple booting, or vice versa. Finally, a third blog would be used to provide my ESL students with various tools to help them learn and practice English. I might also add a fourth at some point in the future to discuss art in all of its forms (but mostly anime, movies and books, I guess).

Hmmm... It is probably not an ideal division, but it should go a long way in helping people keep in touch with the part of my ramblings they care about - and only that. I'd also like to open the last three to contributions and I think the division will make it easier to manage blog permissions.

On a related matter, it seems I will have to use Mozilla or Firefox to format my blog posts with italics, bolds and such. Safari is a fantastic browser for many things, but it also lacks support in certain areas. I might use an external application instead. I used MacJournal with my livejournal account and it served me well. When I have tested a few things, I'll post links to the ATOM/RSS feeds for each of my blogs, so that those who want can subscribe to each blog individually and use an ATOM/RSS feed aggregator to look for new posts easily. (For those who have no clue what an ATOM/RSS feed reader is, I'll explain the basics in my techno blog sometime soon.)

I'm off to test a few things.
I will write more soon. :-)