Saturday, August 29, 2009

I need another blog

I started blogging a couple of years ago because I wanted to have a record of what I was saying/doing/thinking. My blog, Waving Not Drowning, has become my 'professional' blog. By that I mean I post things about software development, the technologies I use at work and on my home projects, and approaches that I've seen work, with explicit details about how they worked. That blog has become like my professional long term memory.  It contains the sum of the professional gems that I want to remember but will inevitably forget, and has already saved me from re-inventing particular solutions several times.

So now I really can't put other stuff on that blog. I've been posting about other personal stuff up there, and find that I really don't want potential employers knowing anything more about me than my professional experience.

I want this blog to be the personal equivalent of Waving Not Drowning: experiences/observations that I think are worth remembering, either because I don't want to repeat them or because I want to remember what I was doing circa 2009-??, and this is the cheapest way to do that.

One more thing: the name of this blog. I started this blog when working for my current employer trying to do entity tagging of bands and musicians from blogs. I got to write killer posts like 'Why the IROC ROCKS!" and "Ronny James Dio: The Greatest, and I'll kick Your Ass if You Don't Think So", "Van Hagar: the Suck Ass, Whiny Downfall of the One True VH" and "Def Leppard: Those Bitches Were Killed by The Moog". Who knows? Those were so goddamn fun I might have to resurrect them.