Typically the arrival of an About Me page wouldn’t rate a blog post. But as I’ve been intending to get around to creating one for Hogtown for about two years now this is a marginally special day.

Here it is in all its expositional glory: about me.

Alternate title: In which our protagonist takes a further swerve away from the original intent of his blog, realising that the miscellaneous category is full to brimming while the other categories he always meant to write something in are looking rather sad and empty.

So, applying a little after the fact strategising, I’ll say that the Hogtown blog will get even more about whatever the hell I’m thinking and less focused on specifically web/business-y stuff. Another way, this will become an excellent place to find out if I’m the sort of person you want to have anything to do with, and won’t even pretend to be a place to read well thought out articles on web development and related issues (which A List Apart, and a million others, do better than I ever will anyway).

So, here’s to an ever fuller miscellaneous category.

A blog is basically similar to any other web site, but there are a few different terms and concepts it is useful to understand.
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