leoboiko’s computing log

Last year I tried to keep a strict diet of no computing-related–posts in my blog, Leonardo Boiko’s Diary. My diary is meant to be a personal diary (formal definition: posts in my diary SHOULD be interesting to My Mother). I was studying Japanese Language & Literature, trying to stop being a computer guy, and daydreaming about how cool it would be to make a blog exploring pop culture through academic methodology. And besides, there’s already Ω(1e6) blogs about technology in teh interwebs.

But no matter how much I tried to restrain myself, those little war stories and small configuration tidbits just kept creeping in. My plans to switch careers failed, and now that I joined Google I’m more computer guy than ever. I’ll thereby admit my inner nerdiness and ressurect this old project of a blog for observations on computer science, GNU/Linux systems administration, programming, toys, and life at the big G. Don’t expect frequent updates though; I’m only using this as long-term storage to dump stuff from my mental RAM, saving myself the trouble of refreshing it constantly.

Unlike my diary, complog will be English-only. This allows me to avoid having to fiddle with Gengo variants and to experiment with new Wordpress features (like tags). If you’re interested in computing, I take it that you know English already.

At first I’ll just pull existing content from the diary and from my internal Google blog. With time I may even write useful original stuff, who knows.