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Day by Day: Voices of the Blog^h^h^h^hJournal
Sat, 11 Mar 2006

I go on about all sundry of topics here, and I do hope theres something for the nerd in everyone.. that you like something from Palm and handheld business, to technology and entertainment, to arts and nerding out. I really just started the blog so long ago as an experiment to see if there is really all that much to talk about.. to see if _I_ could really say so much as to support a journal. Well, how about that? Every single person, if they choose to describe just a small fraction of what they experience every day, can support a journal!

I find it interesting (and endlessly troublesome) that I have such a variety of readers among the oh, 3 or 4 that I do have. Lets take stock off the top of my head, in absolutely no particular order. i) Obvious ones include friends and family - the real people I actually know. Some even follow the blog, to my great shame ;) ii) Homebrew communities - I've been supporting and coding for all sorts of communities over the years, and some even rabidly so. Sony PSP, GP32 and GP2X, of course Palm OS and Zodiac. These are the obvious, but lets also chalk up various Atari nerd groups. Gods. iii) The very fine Codejedi and Shadow Plan fans and customers; I have carefully avoided trying to advertise for my company and insane pursuits here, but these people do support me quite a bit and I count a great number as friends. As all know, I'm a huge fan of community building and linking people together.. iv) I suppose one could add to the homebrew listing above the emulation and arcade and jukebox scenes that I've been loitering in for far too long; I helped pioneer arcade emulation to some small extent and met a lot of bizarre and interesting kooky people while scouring southern Ontario for retro gear. v) Syndication. The very nature of blogging technology has led to content being cloned around the web (or 'mirrored') so people are forever finding copies of my journal here in all sorts of places. Numerous times I've been caught off guard when someone comes up and mentions they read such and such a thing about my personal life on some Atari news aggregator or console site -- since I so often talk retro they syndicate my blog into their site, not knowing they can poach just the retro entries. Whatever.. this is the nature of the system though it can be weird sometimes :) vi) LiveJournal -- I mirror my blog into LJ for the conveniance of a few friends over there, but god only knows who stumbles across it there. vii) Perhaps finally, random googlers on the web (hi, by the way!) -- once in awhile some topic or another searched for will end up here. I'm glad to be amusing or useful once in awhile (or shall we just leave it at 'once'?)

Day zero, I did consider a wiki instead of blog, and a set of blogs under one roof so that folks could visit a retro blog, or a friends blog, or others; instead I went with the one you see before you, featuring categories to allow more easily breaking down of the content so one can easily bookmark a group of topics instead of the whole shbang, should they not like my pathetic meandering of thoughts.

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