Wednesday, August 1, 2007

First Post: Mission Statement

I created this blog as a place to put my tech related stuff. I'm sure the three or four people who might read Swamproot could do without the occasional tech story I might put there (which I only did so that I could keep my notes on that particular subject online).

So here will be the occasional chronicles of a plumber of the internet tubes, and rant-o-rific musings of one who has come to realize that working in IT is an continuous exercise in keeping sane while interacting with the chaos that is software, hardware and business.

An experienced IT person can tell you that what they do might as well be Voodoo, given the somewhat tenuous relationship between cause and effect that can at times be quite hard to pin down. So I thought I would write a blog about my experiences in that regard.

I am, like many programmers and engineers, a big fan of the attributed wisdom of Murphy and his laws. One day while searching for a phrase that would best describe one of these "experiences" I came up with "Murphy's Monkey Wrench" getting thrown in the machine. So I thought "That would make a good blog title". So, thanks to Blogger, within 2 minutes I had it.

So, that is the purpose of this blog. Hopefully, I'll have a little more to say later, about actual Murphy Monkey Wrenches.

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