I’ve been a progammer for too many years to count, and I’ve always been one to roll my own solutions to problems, so why am I using a public blogging service instead of diving into Perl and making my own?<\/p>\n
I have actually done it before. Back in the early days of the web, when I was introducing web use to Motorola, I had several sites that included chronological comment lists — what is now called a blog.<\/p>\n
But pulling old code out of my CVS archive and debugging it for my new environment would take more time and patience than I have right now. I can generate enthusiasm for a 30 minute programming task, but anything longer would take me away from my novel and I can’t afford that.<\/p>\n
So here I am, taking the lazy way out.<\/p>\n
(Although I just might be interested in tinkering with the template settings on this thing. It is just CSS after all. Hmm.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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