Take Gentoo for example.  Gentoo is the best linux distribution for keeping up-to-date and tinkering (as well as anything else geek related).  But we all know the most painful part of Gentoo is setting it up.  The installation docs are great, and it’s relatively simple to get your 2nd Gentoo installation up and running in less than an hour, but the little things are a different story.  How did I get the back/forward buttons on my mouse to work in Firefox?  A year ago, why did I insist that I get a nVidia graphics card for running compiz on two monitors?  Sure I can use Google to search for howtos but the howtos never seem to cover my exact situation.  The loss of Gentoo’s unofficial wiki sure doesn’t help either.

So enter my very first blog.  My current idea is to use this as a notebook for whys and hows.  Sure the hows are scattered across the web, but the whys aren’t always so clear.  Maybe my specific situation will help you in your qwest and maybe not.  If it does, then this blog was a good idea!

I’ve titled this blog “Random thoughts on web applications, software development and Gentoo linux” as these are the topics I’m currently the most interested in.  This too may change.  Who knows maybe one day I’ll put some humor up there instead of the blandest title I could come up with.

Hopefully this blog will be helpful to one or two people other than myself.