The perfect is the enemy of the good

It seems to me that one of the most basic rules of blogging, if one hopes to build an audience, is that one should blog regularly. Regularly, that is, at intervals of less than five weeks. So I failed already; we'll see if I can do better. I could whine about how I've been so busy, etc. etc., and that wouldn't be incorrect. But a more fundamental reason why I haven't posted in the past weeks is that I can't put together what I want to say in a way that satisfies me.

Amorphous, mutant forms float around in my head based on things I see and read about in academia and in IT. I can't be coherent, can't bring my analysis to bear on them in a satisfactory way. I have finally concluded: screw that: this is a blog. Expect disjointed, incoherent natterings. Perhaps the exercise of writing itself will help me develop the cohesion I want to have before "publishing."

You have been warned.

Welcome; Colophon

Welcome to my humble blog. I am an anonymous cog in the information services apparatus of a university.  I plan to blog on subjects of interest to me from the worlds of academia and of information technology. 

In the interest of keeping a low profile, I plan to remain pseudonymous. In this, as in other respects, I have been inspired by Dean Dad, whose posts have been consistently thought-provoking over the years. (I hope we will not begrudge me the shameful co-option of his blog title; I'm horribly un-creative about such things.)

I also owe a tip of the hat to Scott Adams, who inspired my pseudonym. "Steal from the best," as somebody said. Regrettably, I have misnamed myself "Denier" rather than "Preventer." Although I could change it, well, that would be a denial of my own mistake, and why not let it stand? At any rate, as I hope will be clear, my taking of the character's name does not imply that I have modeled myself after the character. Or, perhaps I'm just in, well, denial.