Surprise! Rick jumps on the blog bandwagon. February 2
I’ve never been much for these “blogs”… I’ve no interest in reading other people’s diaries, and have always thought keeping one is rather silly. I never got the point of “journaling” in my high school English classes… found it a waste of time, really. And especially the name the world has settled on for this whole thing… “blog” has got to be the dumbest-sounding word ever added to the English language.
So why have I joined the crowd? Well, in the course of my work as “user experience engineer and jack of all trades” at Omni, I keep writing stuff to my co-workers and in various forums (mostly MacNN’s) that maybe other people want to read. Or that maybe I hope other people will read. 
More on this in future entries…
And one great thing about this “blogging” phenomenon is that it’s lead to the creation of several systems for quick web publishing. Right now I’m using PHPosxom, a pretty bare-bones blogging tool. It’s based on Blosxom, which is slightly less bare-bones but requires more webserver configuration than I felt like doing at the moment. (Customizing a Mac OS X Server apache installation is often more trouble than it’s worth.) I like the *osxom tools because they let me use my own server (without needing somebody else’s along the way) and they’re quick to set up and start using. Maybe I’ll move to something more sophisticated later…