~clay

Starting a blog in 2009, in some ways it feels like I’m late to the party (not that this would be the first time I was ever late for anything, mind you). But I’m not starting a blog as much as I am returning to what I had started years ago. In 2002, my first foray into blogging was a chronicle of my academic performance at Georgia State University. In 2003, I reorganized my blog around a photo travel journal of a protracted drive south along the Pacific Coast Highway. These first blogs were little more than static HTML and CSS lifted from friends’ better-looking web sites.

In 2004 I moved up to a Wordpress-powered blog that enjoyed light but steady readership. As is probably par for the course, I found myself with far more unpublished post ideas accumulating in the drafts folder than I could ever hope to finish. And, about that time, my career shifted from a sedentary corporate IT role to a more hands-on engineering and architecture gig. With 12-hour days at the office not uncommon, the blog languished and the drafts along with it.

But even though work is keeping me plenty busy, I’m vowing to devote some time each week to updating my blog. It’s important to me for several reasons. First, it gives me a place to collect and organize my thoughts. It lets me take part in the distributed conversation that is the blogosphere. And it lets me practice my writing.

Thanks for your time. I’m glad you’re here, and I hope you find something entertaining in subsequent bytes.