A Start and a Mission
With what has probably been a couple of years in the making, I finally have a blog. The idea went through a number of iterations, with first me being too lazy, then deciding I should design it myself and host it on a shared server, then deciding I would design it myself and host it myself (which is probably, incidentally, against Cox’s terms of service). Finally, however, at 4 o’clock on a Saturday morning, I find myself too lazy to go through the minutae of setting up a web server, but not quite lazy enough to want to tell the world about an inane discovery I made. And so comes the purpose of this blog.
I’m planning to maintain this blog primarily so I can share the tidbits of technical (usually Linux-related) knowledge that I acquire over time. I’ve had so many moments where I spend hours trying to figure out a problem before I read the right man page, or find a blog entry that helps. On those occasions, I want to shout out to the world and put out another beacon to help anyone else who may have such a problem in the future. That being said, I don’t know for sure I won’t digress into other topics or purposes, technical or otherwise. I have great interest and enthusiasm (some might say “zealotry”) for free and open source software. I run Gentoo Linux. These things will surely come up over time.
With all that out of the way, welcome to the DF Lab! If you’re not familiar with Pillerspeak, that’s the Dan Fego Lab. Enjoy and frequent my writings!
