So, I made one...

So. A blog.

Why? Really, as it is with most of these things, it's been on my mind for a while now. The straw that broke the camel's back was Seth Godin's latest entry on personal branding. My strategy up until now has been to minimize my identifiable information online, and hide the rest of it under the Google blanket of certain family members with the same name. I realized three things, though:

1) I want to be more involved in certain communities (HN, Twitter, Stack Overflow) in a recognizable way.
2) The anonymity I have on Google right now isn't that real. If anybody is really looking for me, they'll keep going until they see something. And they will.
3) I'd rather have control over my online identity than assuming it's null. It's not, and that information isn't going away.

So here I am. Hopefully this also provides an opportunity for me to have conversations with a group of people that are somewhere in between Twitter (real life friends, at this point) and HN (I don't know anybody, even virtually, due to my penchant for ignoring names in forum posts.) Maybe it even crosses over.

Welcome!