Yeah, about that fun I mentioned.  That’s for me.  Oh, don’t worry, some fun is coming your way too.  But that’s later.  See, I recently got myself a ’slice’, courtesy of SliceHost, which is a catchy name for what’s known as a virtual private server.  Basically, it’s like a sandbox – in which I can do whatever I want, without any of the limits of cheapo shared hosting.

So I’m going to be putting some of my newly-buffed skills to work on developing a Rails-based site that will totally kick the pants off what I did six years ago in PHP.  Anyone remember that?  Logging in to see pictures, blog posts, and personal info?  It was a grand dream, but alas, a poor implementation.

If you’ve never programmed something useful… imagine creating a little robot, that would follow you around and be your servant.  But it’s really you too, as you made it all yourself!  Eh… push that analogy around in a few directions and you’ll get close.  So I’m excited to have fun making exactly what I want out my personal website.  Maybe even some things that help Becky’s teacher-parent communication.  And by taking control of privacy issues, we’ll be able to put more of ourselves online, improving the long-distance relationships that are the whole purpose here.