First Post

I thought it would be wise to make an initial test post to check some capabilities.

Aside from that, Welcome to the King of the Earth Blog. I'm S Andrew Monson, and I'll be posting to you here whenever I feel like it, live, 24 hours a day, seven days a week (if I feel like it)!

A bit about this blog. I'm graduating at the end of summer, with a degree in Software Engineering from Auburn University. I figured I'd want a place to rant to the world, and maybe keep in touch with friends, since I'm looking for a job and am willing to move anywhere in the US (except California, because I prefer not to have reasonable freedoms, such as smoking and owning firearms and ferrets, restricted because they aren't popular; and I hope I don't have to eat these words later) and Canada to work on video games. Speaking of which, I expect that potential employers might end up looking at this, so my friends better keep this in mind. I wanted a blog because I fear and loathe MySpace and FaceBook.

I'm also hoping to share some useful and/or interesting knowledge with the world in general, particularly about programming and development topics, and about the open source world in general. I've been running Linux for quite some time (since Mandrake was popular, whenever that was (maybe early to mid 90s?)) and I thought this could be a way to show off and help people at the same time. (Unfortunately I'm stuck in Mac land now, having hosed the MBR on my Ubuntu partition. Not that Mac is that bad... but more on that in another post) Also, I need a new forum in which to complain about Java, Eclipse, etc., and try to give away (because selling FLOSS is not real bight) vim, AutoTools, git, etc., because my co-workers are getting sick of it.

Well, I hope you can put up with my odd love of parenthetical phrasing (and yes, sometimes nested tangents) enough to enjoy this blog. I'll be happy for comments, and I'll try to take requests when I can.

>echo 'Bye!' && logout
Bye!
Logging out...