It would appear, I’m (just about) ready to go public. Now with the site template coding and skinning out of the way, I should now be able to focus entirely on content. I’ll be passing around the URL on a limited-release basis to get some feedback about the looks, navigation and any browser bugs. From my own testing (FF 3.5, IE6, 7, 8), I think this site should work with the majority of browsers out there – it is W3C complaint after all (not that it means anything to IE).

Topic Hierarchy

I wanted to partition the blog into different top-level categories where each category is tied to the page being viewed. You’re currently reading this post under the “Home” category’s General topic group. If you were to switch to the projects or articles page, you’ll only see the posts under their respective top-level category pages (Projects & Articles). So, this makes the site map look somewhat like this:

Home: Typical blogging topics, such as general, news, politics, technology, etc.
Projects: Project “micro-blogs” for each project I’m working on.
Articles: My professional opinion/insights into the various technical topics I’ll be writing about.

Demographic

Primarily, this is a technically-oriented blog. As such, I will be posting a lot of heavy-duty technical information aimed at software engineers. With that said, this is also my personal blog, so I will be posting about not-so-technical opinions and articles here (including politics). Buyer beware, I’m liberal-minded and I share many of the views of my fellow liberal, left-wing thinkers – not saying I don’t have an open mind, though. So, if you like any of these kinds of topics:

• Computer Technology (Hardware, Software).
• Software Engineering.
• Robotics.
• Politics.
• Lime-Jello.

…you may like this site.