I decided I want to try using a blog again to help keep notes and capture ideas. I found WordPress (from Ethan’s blackrimglasses.com) and it’s a very nice open-source project. I like this better than Blogger because it uses categories (which Blogger lacks!) to organize posts, and also works as a stand-alone app (no need to go through a 3rd-party’s server).

I’m not going to worry about defining categories now. They can be created over time. For this post, I created the “Tools” category. Posts under this category may involve discussions about various technologies used in our Ocean Informatics environment.