About This Site

When I went off to college, I decided to do the lazy thing and send off emails to my family and friends back home telling them how I was doing and what I was up to. It was pretty much just a way so that I wouldn’t have to tell people the same stories over and over again to let people know what I was up to. As I sent out more and more emails, I thought maybe people might want to start looking back at what I’d written previously as well as show them to other people, so I decided that a website might actually be a little more convenient. I didn’t have any experience with web administration, so I started off with Microsoft Personal Web Server running on my Windows 98 laptop. It meant that every time I rebooted my site went down, but it was a lot cleaner.

As I got more and more experience with web design and hosting, I moved to Apache, then a dedicated machine, and then eventually third-party hosting. Maintaining your own web server is a pain in the ass, I decided, and I had better things to do than sit and tweak HTML and CSS. I started off with a Movable Type installation, then I eventually migrated to Wordpress since I liked the extendability a bit more.

Once I graduated college, I decided to keep the site since it still gives me a place to just write down thoughts every now and then as well as look back and see what I was doing and thinking. I’m not as prolific of a writer as I used to be, but I know that the option will always be there as long as I pay my hosting bill.