How times change

So I signed up for this blog, then didn't do anything with it for nearly a year and a half. I think I'm one of those people for whom logging into, and using, a web interface is just enough of a hurdle to give me an incentive to do something else instead.

But a few days ago I upgraded my word-processing software, and lo and behold it has a "publish to a blog" feature. Not only that, but it claims to know about Blogger's interface. So if you see this message, it means its claims are correct.

Hello, world!

My name is Andrew Koenig. The R stands for Richard, though I don't usually use my middle name in print (so as to avoid duplicate junk mail). You may have read one of my books.

I'm active in several Usenet newsgroups (particularly C++ and photography), but Usenet gets chaotic sometimes, and I want to try writing in a more coherent, less reactive way.

Bloggers like to call others' attention to things they find interesting, and my interests are scattered all over the map. So I hope to write about technology (particularly as it applies to art), art (particularly photography and music, and technologal aspects thereof) and politics (I consider myself a libertarian with a small l).

I'm new at this game. We'll see how it goes.