Meet the new blog.  Same as the old blog.

Not really.

I find that I get a lot of use out of my own notes (kept in Zim!) and the blogs of other propeller-heads.  I’ve stopped writing in my other blog for the time being for reasons I won’t go into, but I feel the need to write about… something.  There’s two things that I know much about: backyard farming and technology.  I’ve been a computer dork literally since programs were stored on rolls of paper, paper cards, and formatted graph paper looking stuff (RPG FTW!).

The other blog was about gardening.  This one’s about technojunk.

These days, I’m a consultant– typically engaged in some variation on the theme of technology and marketing.  Sometimes more technology.  Sometimes more marketing.  To be honest, I can be ambivalent about both.  The whole of idea of “progress” seems pretty ludicrous as we’re destroying the only planet we have and showing no signs of letting up, and it’s unusual, unfortunately, when marketing doesn’t mean selling people stuff they don’t need by stretching the truth to its legal limits.

But technology is in my blood, and I’ve resigned myself to that.  I been fiddling with computers in one form or another since I was about 13.  Maybe younger.  I’m 43 as I write this.  30 years.  Amazing.

As I mentioned, I get a lot of use out of the technical notes, reviews, howtos, and what-not of other netizens.  I figure it’s about time that I contribute something useful to that body of knowledge.  That’s what my really good new blog is about.

The principles are something like this:

• Nothing written here will be influenced by cash or prizes.  I’ll take cash and prizes, but it won’t influence what I say.  In fact, I’ll probably end up getting sued.  Ah well.
• I’m writing for people like myself in that I still believe that human consideration and decency is worth something, even if the person being addressed has not R’d T FM. (Read the f*cking manual.)  In that spirit, I will mercilessly purge comments or users who act like incorrigible asses.  Oh, except me.  My blog.  I get to act however I want.
• I hope also to write in a way that normal, non-complete-geeks might get something out of it.  Obviously, if the topic is logical volumes or stateful packet inspection, that’s kinda hard.  If it’s a new router, though, I should be able to tell a small business owner what I thought of it without trying to demonstrate my leet speek.
• I will not dumb down.  See above.  I think there’s a happy medium.  That’s usually what I shoot for: technical accuracy and literary clarity.
• I reserve the right to establish additional principles as history demonstrates their need.

There ya go.  Welcome to Rian’s Really Good Technoblog.  I hope you get something useful out of it.  Me too.