thirstymind.org has been around since 2004 or so, and it never really matured into anything that felt like what I originally envisioned. A major reason for that was lack of focus, identity and writing for an audience, whoever that audience was/is. I, simply, neglected it.

I’m determined to change that and I’ve decided to start a new blog here at andrew.io, a domain which I’ve owned for a while and I think it is (a little) more personally identifiable. But, it’s not andrewwatts.com or andrewwatts.net or andrewwatts dot whatever, since they all seem to be taken by other andrew watts’ or are owned by domain squatters.

Also unlike thirstymind.org, this blog will not be on the landing page, it will be http://andrew.io/weblog. I’m leaving the landing page open for a page that will become a table of contents or index of some sort that highlights whatever I’ve worked on.

This blog will be focused strictly on technology, and even more specifically on web based architecture, programming languages and technologies. Initially that will be python and javascript, but technology and my interests change and I will adapt over time.

There will be 2 features of the blog: articles and links. The articles will be posts that I author (hopefully at least once a week) and the links will be asides to things I want to remember and hopefully others will find interesting or useful.

And speaking of others, I’m not sure who the audience will be, other than I hope it will become a technical audience. And I expect the audience will vary depending on the article I’m writing whether that article is a tutorial, review or opinion. But, I’ll be tracking it a lot more closely than I did with thirstymind.org.

Finally thirstymind.org will remain for now and hopefully posting will increase there, but there will be fewer technical postings unless it is clearly outside the scope of this weblog.

With that, I’ll hopefully have my first real post up within a couple days, and while I’m still debating the exact topic, it is likely to be something about javascript.