First post! So I guess this is sort of a new year’s resolution for me, to start writing more. I’m learning jekyll as my way of blogging. I’ve used wordpress in the past but this time I wanted to try something new. I’ve found myself using nothing more than Vim for a lot of my writing and note taking, so why not make it easy and use a command line based blogging system? I don’t need anything super fancy, just something who’s ivories I can tickle. And as you can see, I’m using the default jekyll theme because I have no idea how to customize things yet.

I’ve been thinking about what I can write as my first post all night. I’ve been procrastinating all week. I just really want to start writing and getting my thoughts out there. My thoughts tend to be full of tangents and I thought that blogging might help me keep them in line.

The idea of using git as the basis for a blog platform excites me like a cat hearing the sound of the refrigerator door opening. It creates so many possibilities, like allowing one to see how the blog has changed over the years. A built in time machine, waiting to be ridden back and forth.

Disadvantages of writing in Vim that could probably be fixed with a plugin: