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First Post!

I bet I get bored of this in a few months…

It’s a lovely url. I know you have lots of interesting thoughts to share but if the experience of my good friend Tony who also has a blog is anything to go by, it’s hard to keep it up.

I’ve registered, perhaps, ten domains over the years and if you do it all yourself you invariably get bitten by the catch 22 of needing the DNS’s set up before you register but you can’t get the DNS done (by a provider) until you have the domain.

Anyway keep going, I’ll be watching via the RSS feed in Firefox.

Peter

You forced my hand!

I registered brainsnorkel.com - as you can see the registrar has kindly set it up to serve advertising until I get a host.

Now to start the process of Blog-de-sock-puppetization.

Radio Userland broke months ago, and I still haven’t had the good eight hours’ solid debugging time required to port all my posts to PyDS. Which I’m not sure is the right software to keep using, but it’s the one I’ve spent the most time adding features to recently, so I’ve the best confidence in at least fixing it when it breaks.

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