The Ek’s Files

I just uploaded a new version of my eksfiles.net web site. The content is all still pretty-much the same right now, but I rewrote the thing using XHTML and CSS so it’d be easier to maintain. Next I’ll be working on my Digital Setting Circles and GOLog web sites. The Digital Setting Circles web site will include some new content, too, so stay tuned…

BTW, I used the book Head First HTML, by Elisabeth Freeman and Eric Freeman, to learn all about HTML, XHTML, and CSS. I highly recommend it.

After reading so much about blogs and bloggers over the past couple of years, I’m still trying to figure out what all the hoopla is about. Bloggers, and people who read blogs, seem to me to be waaaaaay overestimating their importance to society. Maybe it’s just me; I generally don’t give much of a crap about what most other people think–I figure that my opinion’s as good as anyone else’s. Maybe that’s why I skip the editorial page in the newspaper, too (although I usually read the letters to the editor on the outside chance that one of them might provide a good chuckle).

Yet here I am, the proud owner of a blog of my very own. Go figure.

In my own defense, the blog attracts me because it looks like an easy way to share interesting information. Being the ham radio, amateur astronomy, computer, and electronics nerd that I am (see my digital setting circles project, for example), I’m frequently thinking about some idea for an interesting project. And once in a while I learn something new that I think might be interesting to other nerds like me. So now I have a place to put that kind of stuff easily, at least until it’s time to put that stuff on one of my other pages.

That’s not to say that I won’t ever use this blog to rant or rave about something. But I don’t expect you to care about what I have to say. So feel free not to.

There you have it. This is my blog. I’ll be a little surprised if anyone ever finds it.