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Welcome to my first blog ever!<\/h1>\n

– General Mayhem –<\/h2>\n

Everybody has a variety of topics and things that they find interesting.\u00a0 While it’s probably not a good first blog topic, it’s fun to know that somewhere out there is someone who is ultra super passionate about macrame hangings, artisan sourdough baked from a verifiable 200+ year old starter, figuring out how to make hollandaise sauce from scratch in the microwave without burning the yolk (if that’s you and you see this, please email me post haste), and the list goes on.<\/p>\n

New First Blog Smell (or Why on earth am I doing this?)<\/h2>\n

During the course of my LinkedIn contact building experiment – that’s a fancy way of saying “I need to make new friends in the professional world” – something I hear repeatedly from new contacts as we get to know each other is “Wait, you do WHAT?”\u00a0 To be fair, this is something that I frequently say to OTHER new contacts almost constantly.\u00a0 I don’t always actively think about all of the things that I tend to obsess about until it comes up in conversation.\u00a0 It finally occurred to me that having someplace to document some of those things and their specifics might be a fun idea, along with a collection of thoughts about LinkedIn experiences, projects I’m working on, and a nice historical look-back at what is happening and when.<\/p>\n

Historical Context<\/h2>\n

Part of this was also prompted by the discovery that Livejournal never actually dumped its historical data.\u00a0 Once upon a time I participated in the fairly regular gathering of online thoughts and ideas. Braindumping them into the “blogosphere” to share with other friends who were doing the same thing was all the rage.\u00a0 It was something of a precursor to what the Book of Faces ended up becoming while being more journaling-centric than Myspace was capable of handling at the time.\u00a0 The result of this discovery: I pumped out quite a bit of writing, I remembered that I really enjoyed writing, and I was a very odd individual.\u00a0 The latter hasn’t changed all that much, but it was a different kind of odd.<\/p>\n

All of the above to say: there are some topics that I am excited to braindump about.<\/p>\n

The “Short” List<\/h2>\n