Hello world!
This is my first time at posting a blog, or “web log” for those of you who have no idea what I’m writing about.
I first heard about blogs during the Gulf War. Apparently they were a useful source of independent comment, news and discussion. That’s the great thing about the Internet. It enables you to publish anything you like for no charge.
Then I read an article in The Age about blogs and how popular they were becoming. Hundreds of thousands of people have them. The Age mentioned a blog script, which required knowledge of CGI. I experimented with it and got the thing working, but I wasn’t ready to go live.
The fact I managed to run a CGI script inspired me to fiddle around with other scripts. Eventually this led me to rebuild the Alpine News web site.
I became bolder with each success and challenged by each failure. I managed to run a couple of small PHP scripts for web forms. I wanted something to record local weather data, and in searching for that I somehow came across Jonathon Beckett’s Blog script. You can download this and see his site here.
I loved the layout and simplicity of the script, so launched into my first attempt at running an SQL database. There were a couple of server glitches, not caused by me, and here we are.
So what can you expect to read here. Unlike some other blogs I won’t be bearing my soul and giving a racy “warts and all” daily diary.
Instead you will find my observations and comments on current events … boring stuff most likely. So why I am doing it?
Good question. That might become clearer to me as this blog unfolds.
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