About this blog

So I’ve finally gone and done it. I’ve purchased the sapak.info domain, paid for web hosting (through site5), and installed b2evolution as my blog engine. I’m going to use this first post to explain my goals and intentions with this project.

I’ll be using the mike.sapak.info subdomain as my personal blog/webpage. The blog will include some day-to-day occurrences in my life, but will also include posts about topics of professional and academic interest to me. These posts will probably cover technology, international relations, and the intersection of the two. The balance of personal to academic will be ironed with time.

I could have built a site like this, for free, in my university-provided web space. I went with a commercial web host because I have other goals for the space. In addition to maintaining a personal site, I’m hoping to improve my web development skills, which are rudimentary at best. The university-provided space provides no database access and can not run PHP, Ruby on Rails, etc. Hosting out of my apartment on my own server isn’t an option, as off-campus upload speeds are severely crippled.

Additionally, this arrangement allows me to host other sites. I’m currently creating a student-run blog for my college (James Madison College at Michigan State University). It will be a place for students to write about topics of academic interest in a professional manner, but less formally than academic papers. I’m hosting this site for the summer; hopefully Madison will pay for a host come next fall.

In summary, this page is one part of a larger project of mine. One one level, I hope to take increased ownership over my online identity by creating a cohesive identity, under my real name. (Look for a longer post about this soon) This should also serve as an excellent professional reference. Through all of this , I will increase my own technical skills.

This is a boring post, but I wanted to get my goals written down. Now I have no excuse for not getting things done.

May 27, 2007 | Filed Under Announcements [A]

 

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