Well, good point.
Basically, I thought I needed another blogging outlet in my life and hence Brett’s Blog has started. This is to be my ‘geeky chuntering’ site, somewhere that I can talk ‘geek’ without putting anyone off.
I started blogging almost a year ago, creating Brett’s Baby Blog, which was to be my musings on being a dad for the first time. It’s still going, I still enjoy writing posts for it although admittedly there’s been a few gaps in the blog-post-timeline, but nonetheless, it’s still there.
The Baby Blog site uses DasBlog, which is an ASP .Net 2.0 application that I downloaded from the CodePlex.com site. DasBlog is great, as out of the box there’s a range of templates available to choose from, as well as customise accordingly. Back then, I didn’t have a great deal of time, as I think when I started it, my wife was about due to pop, so I wanted to get it started whilst I had the opportunity and haven’t really seen a need to revamp it!
The problem with the Baby Blog site, was the title instantly restricted the content that I could put up on there, which helped me to focus the content specifically on baby-stuff, but when something geeky came up that was directly related to my baby, I thought twice about writing a post about it, for fear of some people tuning out and not reading any of it. For example, one post that did make it through, was about backing up photos; I have been mentioning how many photos that we’ve taken of the little lad so far, and how I really didn’t want to lose them, so I blogged about ensuring that photos were backed up, and how I did it, etc. The problem was, a few people were a bit lost by that post, as it wasn’t anything to do with Jack, nor babies as a whole, but I felt it was important to write something about backing up data, especially photos, as I have been the victim of a failed hard drive once before and lost all of our holiday photos up to that point.
I have also created a spin-off mini-site for my son, Jack, which is piggy-backed on the ASP website I created for our wedding photos about 5 years ago almost. The whole site was designed to be private, restricting it to friends and family, etc. This meant that I can put up more personal details about what’s going on, access to the photo and video library of him, etc. Obviously stuff that I’d like to share but have a little control as to who sees it really.
So, back to the point about this blog space. Well, I’ve fancied a geeky blog a little while ago, but didn’t know if I could upkeep it. But since we’ve created an internal blog at work, specifically for in-house geeky topics, I think it’s fair to say that I’ve given that a good go; there’s lots more stuff I’d like to add but can’t as it’s not really work-related. So, that’s where this blog steps in.
I’m not sure who I expect to follow this blog, as I don’t know as yet how this will all pan-out, but in a way, it’s not about who reads it I suppose.
Just to be clear, I’m not saying I’m hoping to contribute anything exciting to the world with this blog, but I’ve been involved with computers for quite a while now, and would like to think that I can offer something of interest at some point in the future, but it depends on how much fluff you have to sift through to get it!
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