Dan Conley

I think it could really more accurately be described as v0.7 or so, but whatever. This is my blog and I shall number as I damn well please!

I’ve gone back to its original style, Beast Blog 1.0; it had been using Beast Blog 2.0 but I didn’t like the auto “Read more” creation. I’m sure that with minimal code changes I could have disabled it, but I had already spent five minutes or so on image hacks and I’m a busy man! Or lazy, I can never be bothered to remember which.

I think the main reason for the lack of content on the blog, with the exception of the aforementioned laziness, is that I was trying to make something that didn’t come naturally. I registered the domain shortly after I was scared into the “Must be professional, must be intelligent, must be marketable!” mindset that so many people have. Maybe it’s because I have a great job, maybe it’s because I’ve mellowed out or maybe it’s because I’ve been influenced by xkcd, but:

Apologies for the slightly compressed text; the original comic doesn’t look like crap.

Of course, having said that, for a while I wasn’t sure what I could talk about. I still maintain a friends-only Livejournal, simply because there are some things I’d like to say that I don’t want everyone to read; they’re mostly things containing the word “fuck,” so you’re not missing much. But recently I’ve gotten into homebrewing my own beer: so recent that I’ve yet to taste any of it apart from hydrometer tests. Still, though, it seems like a rich subjects and so when combined with the various bits of geekery/miscellanea I can come with on my own, it seems like it may actually give me something to talk about.

Here’s hoping, at least.