After three years selecting, installing and configuring my blogging software, I’m now ready to write my first post. I hope I haven’t missed the blogging boat. In a typically self-conscious first post, this post will refer to itself alot, rather than provide any meaningful information. That last sentence is a prime example, and this sentence is kinda guilty of the same thing by proxy.

This blog will primarily be about software development. I think one thing lacking in many tech blogs is pictures. So without another sentence wasted, here’s a graph:

This is a lognormal distribution. Ringing some dusty bells from Uni? What’s a lognormal distribution doing here? It could represent the frequency of posts I will end up making to this blog over time, starting from today. It could also represent my enthusiasm for blogging from the moment I had the idea, until now, just as I type this fullstop. It could just be a bit of vacuous eye candy to match a vacuous post. In fact it represents all three.

My name is Brendan, I live in Sydney, Australia, and I work for Cenqua, where I spend most of my time growing Clover. I’ve finally succumbed to the delusion that my opinion should be heard, and that people will listen.

Holy Flying T-Shirts!

The excitement of the week at Cenqua is that we have been selected as a finalist in the T-Shirt Hurling Contest for JavaOne 2005.

The illustration above is a very early concept drawing, since abandoned. I can’t give away details of the design yet because we are yet to get down to detailed design. We did build a dodgy prototype and fire a few t-shirts down the par-5 of the local golf course until the course curator took exception to our presence. To see the final machine in action you’ll have to get yourself to San Francisco for JavaOne.