benad's Journal: The Journal's Genesis...

So... Here it goes.

Why am I wasting my time writing this? Is this some kind of twisted ego-trip? A waste of valuable disk space?

Well, this is for me a "reference document"; a single-link reply for all "here's my full opinion on this matter". And a place where the rare people that know me can glance at my current state of mind over time. (That was a twisted sentence...)

As you can see in yesterday's "messages to self", I'm still in the testing phases of this journal.pl "thingny".

By the way... Why am I using Slashdot's Journal system anyways, instead of some other Web Log (blog) system?
It's free, but others are. And I'm using this site so much in text-only browsers I'm going to pay for the ads I'm missing anyways, so it's not really free for me(more on this on another day). Simply, it's pretty stable (compared to some no-name blog site), so it's not going down / being hacked next week. And they wouldn't mind much if I post my stuff through some Perl/Emacs/curl combination, 'cause it's browser-friendly (I'm not forced to use IE with Java Script). And I can always post while I read Slashdot, i.e. almost every day.

So... , I still need to do some Perl script for this, and only then I'll have proper spell-checking. But at least it started.

The genesis has finished. Uh... The end of the beginning. Uh... The "t" of "start".

... You get the idea... (If you don't know, that's my catch phrase.)

- Benad