First Post

I guess someone should tell Google about the power of different namespaces.
The first challenge to starting up a new blog is coming up with a cool sounding name for it. The second challenge is discovering all the cool names you can think of are already taken, so your only chance is to end up with something more or less random.

Ah yes, indeed. I guess I'll leave the detailed story behind this blog's name for later, if ever, and just apologize for the rather unpronounceable name. While it would be a cool name for an outdoors blog of almost any kind, I'm afraid I'll have to bring disappointment to anyone looking for that kind of content here. No, I expect this blog to be quite a different kind of random walk - geeky, and a bit quirky. Random, in other words.

I'll also reserve a few complaints for Blogger's usability and idiosyncrasies, though I suppose I'm only about to learn most of them. It helped a lot when I found a place to turn the user-interface language to English from my native Finnish, but some random texts will still appear in Finnish... This is not entirely unprecedented, mind you, Windows for for example keeps trying to shove Finnish down our throats even though many technology terms have no agreed upon Finnish equivalents. User interfaces in Finnish end up looking more or less Hebrew to me. Needless to say, this blog will be in English.

For all the complaints, voiced and unvoiced, I have about Blogger, I did have a look at some competing blogging platforms. As of this writing, the otherwise most appealing competition's front page still has this informative tidbit on it: "Script error: /tmp/local_200605.xml does not exist. Please create a blank file named /tmp/local_200605.xml." Uh, okay. There were also several other oddities which makes it seem like blogging is still edgy, dangerous business not for those faint of heart. Oh well, I'm ready for the challenge (for the umpteenth time).