This is the first of what I’m sure will be many navel-gazing posts before I actually get into this blogging thing. I’m not happy with the design I threw together this past weekend. For a future laugh, here’s what I’ve come up with so far:

The reason I’m unhappy with this so far is that it doesn’t achieve the goals I have for a blog. Of course, I can’t fully achieve my goals unless I know what they are in the first place. What are my goals?

• To have central homepage that aggregates my three outlets on the web: twitter, tumblr, and this blog. The streams should be kept separate because they have different audiences. The blog is technical, tumblr is social, and twitter is personal.
• To have URL I can use to identify myself professionally.
• To have good blog for technical writing. It must be easy to skim and allow code samples.

I could probably manufacture more if I needed to, but I think this is a good starting point.

Don’t worry, nonexistant readers! I have a few topics in mind for real posts in the near future.

First! 

… wait.

A blog design in progress

Having tried to start a blog for, I don’t know, the last 8 years or so, I know that if I try to get the design perfect I will never post it for the world to see. Hell, if I were to wait until it qualified as just “good” you would never read this. So my plan is to put something up that isn’t ugly and tweak it from here. I’ll write a post or two about my development process, or lack thereof, as well.