Welcome

So, I expect that I'm just wasting my time here, but it seems that the time is right for me to try this "blog" thing out from the other side. One of the contributors on an email list I subscribe to has a .sig which says something like "A gentleman is someone who knows how to blog but refrains from doing so in public." Apparently I have an insecurity here, because it troubles me that I don't know how to blog.

Apparently "blog" is one of the ever-so-popular noun-verbs. I really dislike noun-verbs.

People who know me know that I like to rant about things, so this blog will probably be a soapbox where I will air out whatever concept I feel like ranting about.

I got to this "blogger.com" place from Julian Lombardi's Croquet Blog and also Croquet. I've been following Croquet from the Squeak scene since I first heard about it, a while back. After their first preview release (which became unavailable after being mentioned) I wrote this:

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Critique of Croquet

First of all, Croquet appears to be an amazing piece of work. It is an example of the type of work that I am always jealous of. I always seem to end up doing boring stuff in comparison.!From the documentation .PDF:Code is just another media type, and should be just as portable between systems. Late binding and component architectures allow for a valuable encapsulation of behaviors that can be dynamically shared and exchanged.

I believe that in the context of computers attached to the Internet, this is a mistake. Code is code, and data is data. Data are allowed to flow between computers without hesitation (modulo security issues, which are probably not present in Croquet) but code is restricted to the computer it is installed into. Installing code should require direct user initiation.

Look & Feel:
Fabulous. Simply fabulous. Very nifty how much stuff works within the view.

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I am curious if any of that applies to the new release. But I am also tired, since it is now tomorrow, so I am going to go to bed.