Crazy But Able

I’ve played around with weblogs for years, and I’ve gone back and forth on what my weblog should look like and whether it should just be a list of links (much like the current incarnation of Robot Wisdom) or whether it should have excerpts and/or commentary along with the links, etc. One thing I realized very quickly is that hand editing all of the HTML to do what I wanted was very annoying and time consuming.

I tried Greymatter in the past, and, truth be told, for first-gen weblog software, it’s pretty good. But the lack of database support is a real killer I think. So I decided to go with WordPress, if only because Quarto isn’t available (yet, if ever, etc.) for public release. ;)

That’s not the experiment though. Truth be told, I probably would have sat on my keister and never would have done anything about starting this whole weblog thing up again if it wasn’t for a conversation I had with my friend Matt. He mentioned the possibility of writing some stuff for my web page as a guest contributor, and I thought “Group weblog. Hrm.”

The official description of this weblog is “A group weblog for people who otherwise wouldn’t.” And that’s really my vision here: to provide weblog space for friends of mine who don’t really know or even care what a weblog is, but who want a space online to ruminate, say their piece, think out loud, or whatever floats their boat.

So that’s it, really. “Crazy but able” comes from a Waterdeep song (surprise!), although I don’t think I’m using it in the same sense that was meant in “To Chase Away The Birds”. I was thinking about calling the weblog “Because we can”, and that somehow morphed into using the phrase crazy but able to mean a similar thing.

For now I’m still going to maintain my journal as the place where I’ll talk about foofy things I did throughout the day. The journal will be more me-centered and my posts on the weblog will be more… not me-centered.

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