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Hairy starts a blog

At last: I started a blog! Now all the cool kids already run a blog for many years, I finally decided to start blogging as well. You might wonder what made me take so long. Fact is I’ve been looking forward to start a blog for a long time now, but every time when I started to change my website I wanted to do waaay too much at the same time: design a layout, write the underlying system myself, make it accessible for mobile devices, make something really cool to display my photo’s – in a way that was never seen before. This resulted in me starting somewhere and giving up after 3 evenings of work because it was simply too much.

So now I decided to do things differently: I basically uploaded wordpress and started typing :) I still want to have my photo gallery, my custom layout and make the site accessible for mobile devices, but at least now there is a start – all the other stuff is something to figure out in the rainy sunday afternoons to come.

What will the blog be about?

Mainly it will be about two things: PHP and my personal life. I’ll try to seperate those two as good as I can, as I’m very aware of the fact that the people reading the PHP-stuff probably don’t really care that much about my guitar lessons and vice-versa. Therefore there shall be two categories, so you can subscribe to the one RSS-feed or to the other (or to the ‘General’ RSS feed that includes all posts, for the real fans).

Why is the site in English?

My target audience is the PHP Community and my friends & family. Most people in the first group don’t understand dutch, but pretty much everyone in both groups understands English just fine. It’s really a matter of reaching the largest possible group of people, and I’m definitely not planning on typing everything twice!

What happened to your photographs?!

I still got them! At the moment I’m just not displaying them yet, but they will return. I can’t promise when, or how.

I’m pretty excited about this fresh new start on my personal site, and I hope you like the step I took. Please let me know what you think in the comments!