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Introduction

I've been told that I should start a blog so I have.  I'm hoping to use it as a way to organize some of my thoughts, share some of the things I'm interested in and which I find interesting.  I may also rant and rave a bit about this bit of history or that bit of how I remember things in the early days of the web.  I hope it might be interesting to you.  I am assuming with some vanity that what I put here may be interesting to others.

For the most part though this is a place for some of my interests, from Linux to emulation to various techs that I have used, wish to have used and hope to one day own.  I expect this to swiftly become an offshoot of my bookmarks and a place to link videos from YouTube I like.  I want to write here with an aim of improving my ability to communicate as I do so.  Getting those 1,000 bad pages out of me so that by the time I write page 1,001 I am doing so much better than when I started.

Thanks for dropping in.  If you leave comments I will try to respond when I can.

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