Why the switch?

So for well over a year, I'd been editing my "blog" (essentially a flat HTML file) with emacs and just secure-copying over to either of 2 servers it'd been hosted on. This was happening with glacial frequency. And it looked... well, rather archaic. And emacs can be kind of difficult to play with, especially if you're like me and haven't taken the time to learn all the appropriate keyboard shortcuts. (I know, I know... UNIX purists would scoff at my not using vi.)

Now that I'm enabling myself to edit my blog from machines anywhere, particularly those that don't have local ssh clients, I can pretty much post from anywhere they allow port 80. Which would be pretty much everywhere. :-)

For the most part, I'll be droning on and on about a bevy of things: current events, politics, technology, the mundanity of my middle-class white-collar cubicized existence, etc.

A little bit about me:

I'm a married, 33-year-old computer geek living in Somerville, Massachusetts -- a rapidly-gentrifying city adjacent to Cambridge and a stone's throw (literally) across the Charles River from Boston. I've lived in all three places over the last ten years, with intervening layovers in Chicago and San Francisco. My wife and I are the proud parents of a (presently) 9-month old boy and a (presently) 4-year-old dog. We enjoy reading, watching movies, playing with the kid, harrassing the dog, spending time with our respective families, running, hiking, and chilling out at my in-laws' place in rural Maine.

Last year, we bought a slightly dilapidated 127-year-old house, which needs a little work, which we're doing piecemeal.

We're both computer geeks. My wife is a Mac expert, while I'm a network hack. As I'm wont to say, At the end of the day, it's all just 1s and 0s.

Anyway, at the risk of sounding more trite than I've already become, I'll dispense with the formalities and go on to more banalities. Yeah, that rhymes.