Oh dear. Another blog has been inflicted on the world.
But I have no doubt that someday it will be read by uncountably many people—that's eleven according to my fingers—and of course they will search back through the archives to find this first posting that explains the purpose and motivation of the whole thing. So explain I shall.
First, the name. I wanted a domain name where I could publish some web games, so I went looking for one that wasn't taken. I don't remember what my top choice was, or my second, or my third; I do remember that after a couple hours of looking for any halfway decent name that wasn't already taken, my standards were getting pretty low. So that's how I ended up with bogweasel.com. It's what was left.
So when I needed a blog name I thought I'd save myself some time and just stick with the whole weasel theme.
I only got around to making one web game, the result of one weekend spent learning flash. Behold.
Where was I... oh, me. The author. I'm a programmer with a tendency to go off on rants about all sorts of topics, mostly but not exclusively related to programming. Somewhere around 1994 or 1995, I had a brilliant idea: I should write these rants down as essays and post them on the internet for people to read! Then I could enlighten the masses while saving my coworkers the pain of having to listen to all my crap. Plus I needed the writing practice.
Unfortunately, I'm a bit of a procrastinator, so it took me thirteen years to get around to starting, and now everyone is doing it. Oh well, better late than never, and I still need the writing practice.
