Why this blog?

Many of the blogs I read tend to be devoted to one, sometimes two, themes. I don't pretend to have experienced enough of the blogosphere to know whether this is generally the case or not.

I haven't found a single theme yet. And I don't know that I'm even looking or trying. My interests are too varied.

Some of the things I'm interested in:

• programming & programming languages
• legal issues (even though I chose not to attend law school after college)
• self-publishing & print-on-demand technology
• typesetting (TeX & LaTeX!)
• computer security
• the study of time (and how different cultures approach the passage of time differently)
• entrepreneurship & small-business

I'm also interested in politics, religion, and family, but to date I've decided largely to keep those areas private from my online life.

So basically lacking a cohesive overriding theme, this blog exists for me to record and share my thoughts and findings in the ecclectic mix of stuff that I enjoy.

In that regards, I feel my objective is simillar to Kevin Walzer's—I'm doing what I want.

I haven't enabled comments on this blog. Why?

1. It eliminates the nuisance and clutter with having to deal with spammers
2. I wouldn't want to stare everyday at a bunch of "0 comments" links (how depressing!)

In the unlikely event that anyone reads this blog and would like to comment on something, email works. The best address to use is: cleverly @ gmail.com.

—Michael A. Cleverly
Sunday, January 30, 2005 at 14:13