Welcome to My Blog
Since this is the first entry, I thought I would set the stage for what I expect to do here. It will be a great way to help me stay on target with this as I think about what I want to share. That’s not to say I won’t allow myself to wander off target from time to time, but those occasions should be pretty rare and exceptional ones. I expect this to be technically focused. Lots of discussions of how I do things or how I would like to do things (when I am looking for a solution and can’t seem to put my finger on it). Hopefully, when I am looking for advice or assistance, there will be someone out in cyberspace that can help. That’s one of the real strengths of the Internet and I want to foster that by both sharing what I know and learning how others solve the same problems at which I am looking. One thing I have learned after 30 years working with the Internet and its related technologies is that there are very few things that only have one solution.
Generally, I won’t be commenting on the news of the day or reviewing hardware or software here. There are plenty of others who spend time doing that and many do a credible job. I may reference those I believe have done those types of things in a way that resonate with me (and I may do it myself on those rare and exceptional cases I mentioned in the first paragraph of this post), but I don’t expect that to be a regular theme here. I want to cover things that I hope will be of interest to people looking for technical solutions to specific technical problems that I have worked on from time to time (or are working on at the time I write a particular posting). As such, the posts may vary pretty widely within that area as I like to learn all the time. One day, I may talk about how I configure the Apache web server to do something. Another day, I may write about building routing policy sections in JunOS. I expect I will write about home theater as I like to dabble in that from time to time. Right now, I am not sure what the boundaries will be exactly, so bear with me as I work through this during the start up of this effort.
Every blog post will be open for comments and I will be reading every one one of them, but I will moderate the posts and publish those I consider to be on-point to the original and interesting to read. Spam comments will be treated as such. Feedback via the contact page is also welcome, but please include the title of the posting you are commenting on. Using the contact page won’t make it back to the comments page on the posting, but it could generate some private exchanges with me and may generate some follow-up posting here. I also suggest using the contact page if you have suggestions for postings.
Again, as I wrote on my home page, I appreciate you visiting and spending time reading what I post here. I hope you find it is time well spent.
