peter.vdhamer.com

This is my first posting. Some reasons to create a blog:

• I needed to get a seriously hosted website recently. The hosting company (GoDaddy.com) allows you to run a lot of stuff at no extra cost: multiple mySQL databases, PHP applications, shell access, e-mail forwarding, etc.
• I set up a WordPress blog for my daughter a week earlier. Having one of my own helps me learn about this pretty mainstream technology. My first web site was entirely hand-written in HML/CSS back in 1995.
• I sometimes send out E-mails on photography that are kind-of-worth reading. And thus may be worth “publishing”  – meaning editing, distributing and archiving.
• I am learning the PHP scripting language. WordPress is one of the top PHP applications around. You can learn by seeing what the big boys can do.
• Occasionally I have some piece of info (about technology) which might useful for others to be able to find via a search engine: opinion, problem, solution, etc.

There are also excellent reasons not to create a blog:

• The world probably has enough blogs.
• Takes a lot of effort to make it attractive enough to justify getting friends to have a look: mine are on average pretty busy people.
• My blog is probably not interesting enough to get regular readership from people who don’t know me.

Ah well. I can always stop posting. And my blog should be no worse than the average blog.