Hello World

I'm starting this blog because I felt too constricted by my self-imposed technology/coding straightjacket at Ruby Merriment and wanted to give myself a forum for more broad topics and explorations.

So of course, I'm opening with a coding joke. For those who don't know, the prototypical example that programmers use for any new system, language, etc is the 'Hello World' program.

The purpose of such a program is to verify that the system is at all functional, and demonstrate the (almost) minimum possible complete program. So as my minimum possible description of what this blog will be: Thoughts I want to explore that don't necessarily have a specific (e.g. technical) target audience in mind.