blivet.com

Five years. That’s how long this site, blivet.com, has remained essentially the same single static page. But now I’m publishing a weblog here to put some movement on that fixed expression.

I’ve been planning to do this for over six months. And the delay was more about fear than any technical roadblocks. But a simple vice is really what made it finally happen.

While I did only recently complete moving the site from the Linux box in my house to DreamHost and just as recently getting Movable Type installed, upgraded, and its templates configured to my tastes, these tasks were not what was holding me back.

It was taking that first step and actually communicating or, more importantly, committing to continued communication that seized my mind and my fingers. A weblog isn’t just a single blank page to scare up writer’s block. It’s not a 500-word essay or even something that has a clear beginning, middle, and end. It’s a journal. It’s a chronicle of life. And life is just messy and embarrassing. Boring too.

I’ve never been able to keep a private journal either. So why do this now in the midst of all this fear and loathing? Vanity. Pure and simple. I think the success of Safari made me cocky enough to think I could write publicly and people would read what I had to say.

So now I plan to write here. Often. But probably not about Safari that much. And I’m not enabling comments yet so hold onto your feature requests and bug reports. I’ll find plenty of other topics with which to pack this site. After all, there’s supposed to be “Ten Pounds of Content” here. Consider this the first ounce.