Sludge for teh win

Over a month since my last (and first) post. This is not going well.

Here's the problem. My intention was to fill this blog with clear and insightful analysis of all sorts of programming-related topics. I have a long list of topics to rant about, so there's no shortage of material. But when I sit down to write about one of them--let's say some low-hanging fruit like how much iostreams sucks--I get worried about the accuracy of the things I'm saying. I mean, this is the internet. You can't just say things that might be wrong. So I start double checking my facts and three hours later I realize I've wasted my entire allotted time reloading reddit and rotting my brain with fluff.

So then I figure, all right, the blog is also a way to practice my writing. So I'll just write about how I don't have anything to write about, and at least that will develop the habit and hopefully over time I'll manage to shift over to meatier stuff.

But I don't want to have a blog like that, a miserable swamp of unreadable wannabe writer sludge. So I don't write that either. And then it's over a month since I posted and the thing is looking dead. I don't want a left-for-dead-after-one-post blog either!

So for now I guess "miserable swamp of unreadable wannabe writer sludge" is the winner. Hooray?

Next time: what I found when I looked under my toenails!

Illumination

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.