This is where I write about why I have a blog, and what I'm interested in...to give you a basic undertstanding of me, a framework upon which you can build this anonymous rapport with me while I spill my guts out about shit that goes on in my life.

It probably won't work like that.

I've had several 'home pages' in my time.  Websites, if you will.  I always had some grand plan to elaborate on my sense of purpose, wrapped in HTML tags.  But these plans always ended up in ruin.  Neglected, the websites existed only as a shell.  A metaphor?

No.  Nice try.

StewartFip.com has been several things.  A mule for web projects, music and videos.  A place to learn stored procedures last-minute before the interviewer asked about them the next day.  A to-be website hit counter service, back when hit counters sufficed to give people enough validation that their website was worth something in cyberspace.  A front end for a freelance web development business.  Pictures of my dogs.

Never really a 'website' though.

And now people don't have 'websites'.  They have blogs.  Since I still have this desire to say something in this medium, and since I'm a web developer by trade, I'm not satisfied with using something easy like blogger.com.  What does a web developer without any blogging experience do?  Use open-source blog software.

So here I go.  My first post.  And as you can see, I ramble.  Come back often.  I'll probably give up after this.