My standard post for any new blogging platform.  I have no plan for this one beyond writing, hence the name.  Not a personal journal; I have one of those.  Not a platform for sharing online media; I have one of those, too.  Here, I just want to write.

I used to consider myself to be an excellent teacher.  But then I realized that I'm not, and I thought perhaps I am just a good public speaker.  But then I realized that I'm not, and that perhaps I am just a good writer, and this sentiment resonates within me.  Perhaps I excel not at teaching, nor public speaking, nor even engineering.  Perhaps my gift is simply the ability to convey information in written form, be it prose or programming.   I have contracted my self-image and compressed it into this narrow form and it is here I must make my stand.  If I am not here, then I do not know where I am.

Let's see what this thing can do...