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Welcome to IG's Skeptic Tank
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.



Posted by IGnatius T Foobar <> on Fri May 28 1971 01:10:00 EDT
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IGnatius T Foobar  says:  Wed Jul 10 2013 22:58:27 EDT
(Yeah, I've been meaning to do this for a while. I've got all these blog entries I've been maintaining in a text editor in raw RSS format, because I'm a nerd. Took me this long to finally import them into Citadel's blogging engine.)

zooer  says:  Thu Jul 11 2013 18:56:31 EDT
I like the date on this entry. I can't comment using the text-client but I like the date on this entry.

IGnatius T Foobar  says:  Thu Jul 11 2013 19:21:04 EDT
You can comment with the text client. You just have to hit <R>eply instead of entering a top level message. The latter creates a new blog post, which you can't do because it's not your blog. :) But you could create one of your own.

IGnatius T Foobar  says:  Mon Feb 15 2016 17:56:28 EST
Actually, you *can* comment using the text-client, but you have to do it by Replying to an existing post or comment. Enter Message doesn't work unless you're the blog owner, because that creates a new top-level blog post.

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