For several years now I've been intending to start a personal blog. I assured myself that I would begin as soon as I wrote my own blogging software. That's still the plan -- I want to add blogging capabilities into the Citadel system. But those plans are behind schedule, and in the mean time I've missed out on the opportunity to write about various things happening in my life, in the news, in the world, and in general.

Today I had some comments that I posted to my home page, which hasn't yet evolved past the 1990's and is still maintained as static HTML. I was copying those comments to LiveJournal because I have a friend there who I wanted to share them with, and I realized that I had enough bits and pieces sitting around that if I collected them all and back dated them, I'd have a blog that goes back more than a decade. So I did, and here it is. I don't really have a good starting date to associate with this introduction, so I'll simply use the date and time of my birth.

My blog is called "Skeptic Tank" because I have a tendency to mistrust mainstream thinking about most topics unless I can confirm it myself. I find that the accepted wisdom on most topics is simply wrong. More on that later. And rest assured that when I do get my own blogging software running, this blog will move to UNCENSORED! where it belongs. Please go there now, though -- even without the blog it's a wonderful online community with some really cool people to chat with and hang out with.