Last Straw

So I’ve been spam­ming you all for a few months now, I thought it was about time I rolled out an introduction.

As some are aware, and many unaware, what you are cur­rently read­ing is called a web­log, usu­ally shortened to blog. Basic­ally it’s a soap­box; a web­site con­sist­ing of peri­odic posts, usu­ally in reverse chro­no­lo­gical order. They originated—around the mid nineties when the inter­net was becom­ing popular—as run­ning com­ment­ar­ies, along with links, of people’s daily Web dis­cov­er­ies. It was a way for those who didn’t spend much time on the Inter­net to check out what those who did had found. These days web­logs range from per­sonal diar­ies through to influ­en­tial journ­al­istic pub­lic­a­tions. I really wish I’d had one when I was in Iraq.

This blog is aimed mostly at friends and whanau and will con­sist, hope­fully, more of links than rants as it takes me a shit load of time to write any­thing legible. Mostly I hope to post stuff you’re unlikely to come across in the cor­por­ate media.

You’re encour­aged to post com­ments. I’ve now turned off the need to register now to make it easier. Just no shenanigans or I’ll kick your ass.

Why is it called Last Straw? Well I was ori­gin­ally going to use it in con­junc­tion with the straw bale work I’m doing (and intend to do in NZ), but I’m not sure about that now. I think I’ll just use it purely as a soapbox.

So what’s the point? Noth­ing too ambi­tious, just hop­ing to bring about the Age of Aquar­ius about 600 years earlier than planned.

Before I go, here’re a couple of terms you may not have come across before:
Blogroll: a list of links to other web­logs (make sure to check them out, along with all the other links)
Aggreg­at­ors or news­read­ers: applic­a­tions that allow you to sort all the news sites, blogs and for­ums that you read on the net, like Net­News­Wire (Mac) or Feed­De­mon (Win­dows). Highly recom­men­ded.
RSS or Atom: feeds for said aggregators