There have been a few times in the last while where I've sat down and started typing something out only to abandon it within minutes. I guess I have a tendency to feel that my posts should be substantial or meaningful in some way. Well, to break out of that block I'm going to try to hold myself to posting once a day for the next while. It'll be boring, stream of consciousness type stuff at first. You know, personal ramblings that no one likes to waste their time reading. So, "sorry in advance" to those few people who are actually subscribed to this thing and any newcomers who are just here to see what I'm all about.

I do hope to eventually start posting technical content and maybe some articles on Canadian government life and issues. I have to thank Ben Nadel for the inspiration to start putting out regular updates. I used to follow his blog regularly back when I was still into ColdFusion and stumbled upon it again today while googling something. The guy is admirably persistent! He's been posting helpful technical tidbits and personal updates for years on end with astonishing regularity.

I've been spending a lot of time perusing open source projects online at a very shallow level. I know that writing code is infinitely more instructive than reading it, especially when you're just skimming and not taking the time to really understand anything, but at least I've exposed myself to some of what's out there. In fact, I spend a lot of time just marveling at people's ability to churn out code and continuously develop themselves. I also like to pop over to the Arxiv once in a while to see what some of the more clever people in the world are working on.

Anyways, now that I've started typing I seem to have no problem thinking of topics I'd like to cover. In fact I guess I'm going to need to narrow down and pick a starting point for my next post. Here are a few possible subjects:

• Open source software policies and open data/transparency in the Canadian government
• Personal projects and contracting
• Technical things I'd like to explore: node.js, erlang, rails 3, html 5, mobile development
• Projects at work
• Motorcycles
• Project/business ideas

While I'm at it, here are some things I'd like to add to this website:

• Net worth updates
• Recently played music
• Fitness records and progress

That's all for now. Until tomorrow!