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...