Saturday, March 10, 2007

Hello World!

How do you start up a blog? I’ve read several, and it seems you just jump in and get your feet wet. In keeping with my eccentricities, I’ve purchased a few books, read through them, and when confronted with so many different options — well, I sat on my apathy procrastinating as usual. The self-talk was amusing: “I’m in a graduate program” “I’m too busy” “I don’t have anything momentous to blog about” — whine, whine, whine, ad nauseam.

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I seem to collect useless degrees — sort of an education junkie. One of them happens to be a computer programming degree, and for the geeks and/or nerds out there, that should explain the title of this post. For the rest, the first program a programmer learns is the ubiquitous “Hello World” program. So, hello world — and the old baldheaded fat man starts a blog.