mushinnoshin

So on my first day at my new employer, Nathan asks if I have a blog. I say no, and he predicts that I’ll get one. Since I’d hate to disappoint, here I am : )

Of course posting my ramblings on the web is nothing new to me, but over the last few years, being busy with school and my work with the lptn, I had let my old websites fall into a state of disrepair — if anyone happened to visit any of my old sites in the past year, you probably got a directory listing and not much more.

But now I’m done with school and have stepped down from the lptn. And now that I’m gainfully employed as a perl developer, I probably do need a new playground. And since the net is currently ablaze with pretensious hyperbabble[0] about “Web 2.0″[1], it seems this is the appropriate time to enter my 2.0 phase as well.

So welcome to the mind of no mind!

…Jon

[0] A combination of hype, babble, and hyperbole, that can only occur in hypertext…

[1] A whole other topic on which I may post at some point, but my primary gripe is this: O’Reily describes one of the defining characteristics of “Web 2.0″:

“The open source dictum, ‘release early and release often’ in fact has morphed into an even more radical position, ‘the perpetual beta,’”

Does he not see that this ‘radical position’ is in fact the course that the web as an enitity has always been on, and thus the very notion of a “#.# release” runs counter to the ideas being proffered as Web 2.0?