So I have a BLOG too!!

Welcome to my BLOG.

After reading several people's blogs, esp. my son Jonathan's Xanga, and Keith Arthur's record of his fight with cancer, I think it is a good idea to have a blog too.

BLOG is really not something new for me. Years ago, I think it was 1981, before there was the term BLOG, I created something at work using a basic guest book CGI script and created a log utility for CCS Response Team that I worked on for NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Project. (CCS stands for Command Control System, it is the ground system for HST.) The log utility is used to record trouble calls Response Team received, and actions taken by Response Team. We called it simply a log utility. It is still being used by CCS Response Team. Later, I was tasked by my manager who is the liaison between CCS and HST project to modify and extend its functionality to allow HST DOC () and HST Flight Operations Team, each to have a BLOG. Neither one of them was actually used because they want something they "home grown".

I actually set up this account with Blogger.com before they were sold to Google, but I was testing it for a DC real estate investor who wanted to set up a BLOG on his business site. Blogger.com actually has an interface easy enough even for non-techinical person like him to run the Blog. After he paid me (very little, may I say) for a small website I set up for him, we parted ways because I was more interested in learning about RE investment but he just want to use my technical expertise but pay me as little as possible. After I understand his operation, it wasn't clear at all that his business is more concentrated on selling his books, tapes and courses or doing real estate. So we parted ways.

All that to say this is a simple idea whose time has come. This is a good implementation too. Allowing many customization that I would have hard time implementing.

In any case, have a great day!