This is my second blog. My first blog, ideabastard.com (don’t even look, I nuked it), was a little all over the place and was in Drupal. Drupal is a content management system like WordPress. So I started this for two reasons. First, I liked blogging. It seems a little narcassistic but I enjoy keeping a journal and I don’t write anything too personal. For a couple years now I have kept a timeline. Basically, a minimalistic journal. On this day I got my raise. On this day my mom died. It has about two dozen items each year. So when I want to know when I got my car, I can quickly look it up. This is like that with more words, pictures, and links.
But there is a second reason. I like to play with technology. And there is a new technology I want to play with. There is a company called PageLines. A couple years ago a friend of mine wanted me to start a business with him to develop websites and consult on search engine optimization. He said I could work part time. We even picked out a name. Red Hot Gorilla. I don’t know if it is a good name or not. We didn’t get very far. His name is Shaun Hoffmann and he passed away on September 28th 2012. He had Type I diabetes. Not long after PageLines announced they were going to take their main product and make it open source. Huge. And they were going to make it a Design Management System. In other words, you had WordPress for the Content Management System backend and you would get something like PageLines for the Design Management System theme.
