unless it comes unasked out of your
heart and your mind and your mouth
and your gut,
don’t do it.
if you have to sit for hours
staring at your computer screen
or hunched over your
typewriter
searching for words,
don’t do it.

- So You Want To Be A Writer, Charles Bukowski

I have three intentions with this blog:

1. For it to be somewhere to put the unasked-for thoughts that regularly occupy me.
2. To generally improve my writing to the extent that it becomes less effortful to produce something I’m proud of.
3. That it should serve as an aide-memoir to my other current project of putting together a linux-based home server (I’ll try to mark these posts as distinct from the others) .

Along the way I’ll almost certainly write some dross that no other person should ever have to read (thus proving Mr Bukowski correct,) and I’ll almost certainly post several linux guides that will be fundamentally flawed (so please take them with a pinch of salt; I’m no expert!) but I’m fully prepared to accept that as part of the slow and grinding process of learning how to do this.

To any unfortunate that happens to stumble across this site: I can only offer my apologies for when my writing gets tedious or I go for weeks without posting anything, but if you bear with me I hope we can both get something from this little experiment.