Why add my voice to zillions of others

I signed up for a Wordpress API key many a year ago. I needed it to try out Akismet. I was teaching myself how to write Django apps and was doing the quintessential "build your own blog" method of self instruction.

What I did not realize at the time was that it created a Wordpress.com blog for me when I created my account. Maybe I did realize it at the time and didn't care. Either way, I forgot it existed only to stumble across it years later.

Now here I am at a Wendy's killing time before I have to go back to work. I have TextMate open and a spicy chicken sandwich at my side. I'm not really a writer and I have tried blogging in the past only to let my poor blog languish away in a furious firestorm of inactivity.

So why am blogging now? Well I read somewhere that in order to make yourself more appealing to potential employers you should have a blog that you use to engage with the community.

I have no idea if this is at all effective or if I will even make my way back into the world of blogging but I guess I should try. Summer is coming back, the weather is changing, my garden is getting ready to burst forth with life, and I have a new found excitement for the spice of life.

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