Finally.

I now have a new blog called technoYak. Does that name sound vaguely familiar…?

For a long time now, I have wanted to maintain a separate blog for all things technical, especially the ideas I work with profes­sion­ally, such as software and system design. This was motivated by a slight unease whenever I wanted to post an inter­esting idea to this blog — but couldn’t because I figured it wouldn’t make sense to the lowest common denom­i­nator of the audience. A new blog with a much more narrow focus seemed to be the right answer. That and a pinch of “seriousness”.

So why haven’t I done this before? To tell you the truth, I’ve been stuck in this vicious circle of inaction. Here’s how the thought-process works:

1. I just had this great idea! I think I should blog it.
2. Oooh! You know what, it would be great if I could have a nice serious blog about these ideas that I can talk about with authority, instead of mixing it up with all this random stuff that is unrelated.
3. Yeah, and it would be even cooler if I could do this on my own blogging platform (the one I’ve been meaning to release version 0.1 of for the last three years). Let’s do that first!
4. There’s this whole bunch of features I want to put into this code. It would be nice to have some kind of note-taking software to keep track of all of this stuff. Let me check if there’s awesome new software in the Gentoo repos­i­tory for note-taking.
5. Nope, I guess not. I wish I could use something like OneNote on GNU/Linux…or perhaps I should invest in a really large white­board for my apart­ment? Will I find that online at Amazon.com?
6. [*] Maybe that’s not what I need. Maybe — just maybe — what I really need is a new laptop to do all this new cool stuff. *drool* Yes, that’s it…if I had a new laptop, all of these annoy­ances would go away.
7. Sigh. Let’s put this discus­sion on hold while I take care of all this work stuff. *several weeks pass*
8. I just had this great idea! I think I should blog it.

* If you’re strug­gling to find the logical leap to Step 6, I’m afraid I can’t help you there.