Planet SCM

Awesome: an office with a window.

More Awesome: an office with a window that opens on the first day that feels like spring.

Definitely not awesome: premature termination of an ad hoc discussion on Vault’s branch performance due to the arrival of a swarm of gnats having magnitude just shy of biblical plague.

Every year, the first day that really feels like spring finally arrives. The sky is clear, it smells like spring, and you feel like a million bucks the moment you leave the house and the warm morning breeze hits your face. In Champaign, that day is today. This is the farthest south I’ve ever lived, and winters seem substantially sunnier here than Detroit, but the impact of the first effective day of spring is no less pronounced. As though this weren’t enough, I’m headed to Colorado this afternoon for a long weekend of skiing. Anybody who needs a favor I’d ordinarily refuse would be wise to ask today!

All the cool kids are doing it, and my arm has been twisted, so here it is. Monday I registered a few domains and checked out a handful of blog packages I could install and host myself. I was leaning toward PyBlosxom because it doesn’t require MySQL and because I’ve been looking for an excuse to play more with Python. Tonight, I decided that a good first step toward blogging with some regularity would be to make better use of my time. So WordPress it is. If this blogging thing sticks and I want more control later, or if I develop an irrational desire to play with blog software, I’ll move. I’m happy to say I stopped reading Scoble long enough ago that I had no idea he was here until I came to sign up.