I just can’t help being excited. Finally a blogging software that’s so simple, elegant and yet immensely powerful, you can’t just help but actually use it to do what you are supposed to do, write, instead of tweaking here and there, finding workarounds to the bug you’ve found.

Considering that I came from the era of greymatter, when blogger was at it’s infancy, when movabletype was still free and installing webblog software will take you hours on a 56k modem.

And I took less than 30minutes to fully comprehend and install Wordpress. Wow. And it’s actually possible in 5 minutes.

But thinking back, tweaking an ancient greymatter taught me the basics of unix filesytems and eventually lead to knowledge of mysql databases. Just like how coming from a background where my first PC was running windows 3.11 taught me not to fear the dreaded command line interface.

Those moments taught me how to read documentation that came with software, the lingo of computer speak, that there’s defintely a way out even when the terminal in front of you keeps replying you “Bad command or file name”.

Somehow, that built the person I’m today. I don’t believe things can’t be done simply because someone said so. I believe in going out and researching on it. Read it. Try. Try again.

Good things don’t come easy.

Parts of my old blogs, just for the sake of linking:
Learning… and kelvin quee