*tap* *tap* *tap*... this thing working?

So I guess this is one of those 'blog' things. But not just any old blog, this is my blog! As in I made it, from scratch... just because! Well, because I've always said I'd never have a blog until I made one myself. Why get something for free from someone else when you can waste hours of your own time doing it yourself? Perhaps not a rule to live by.

Although I made all this from scratch (with an exception of one library for the final interaction with the DB) a lot of the heavy-lifting in making the MVC setup, including the domain object handling, markup parsing, etc., had already been done for a core code-base that is already running a handful of sites. I guess none of them needed any bloggyness before. So really this was just a minor addition of a few commands and a bit of html. Which I suppose is why I've finally gotten around to doing it; it was easy!

It was also a distraction from some other coding project that I should have been spending the time on. Where would we be without the distracting little side projects?

Now that I have it I'm trying to figure out what I'll do with it, which is probably the real reason why I never bothered before now. It's not as if I have any mind shatteringly important information to impart. So a 'real' blog then...
It's been a while since I've had a personal public facing website, and that was really just to host a bunch of little smiley faces that I made along with a bit of... ahem fan-fic. So I think I'll stay true to form and post every now and then about my current creative aspirations, which would be mainly game development and photography of the astronomical variety (and perhaps a bit of terrestrial too).

I'm sure the search bots and odd spammer who happen to pass by will find it all fascinating!