I think I’m ready to start blogging again. I’m on a social web kick right now and so I figured  I’d update this (both the backend (MAN did was this out of date) and post again.

I also think that during my previous blogging attempts I was doing it wrong. I used to spend a lot of time trying to write my blog post and that, of course, means that many of my posts failed.

So what have I learned from the past and why do I think that this blogging attempt will be win where others are an embarrassment?

1. Easy linking – I like links in blog posts. They can often be used to turn inside baseball into an introduction to a new subject. But links are a pain in most online WYSIWYG editors (something like 4 clicks + a copy and paste) and html fails at being a decent markup language for humans. So I went looking for a better markup language.
   Initially I thought to go a wiki. However that didn’t really feel right (and TikiWiki overwhelmed me with its feature set!). At the same time I was learning RoR and I came across Textile. Man, did I get excited. I do all my formatting and linking easily without a bunch of clicks. Thank you, Textile, for giving me my blog back.
2. Spell Check – I hate spelling mistakes. However they seem to have a peculiar affinity for me. Today both Firefox and my blog play nicely together so my mistakes don’t break my reader out of the text wondering “What’s that word?”. _{Also spelling mistakes are embarassing embarrassing}.
3. This is a blog. not an A paper for a prof. not a ballad for a lover. It can have problems. It can contradict itself. Really, life’s too short to worry about my blog.

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