Today, I’m relaunching brainpanonline.com with its original branding. I started this website on September 23, 2004. Its mission was to serve as a personal thought dumpster for projects I was working on, random musings, or whatever else I felt compelled to share. That was over 20 years ago. Old enough that it still made sense…

I’m back at my desk after a lovely holiday break. On one hand, this is great because I’m happy to be back and ready to take the new year head on. On the other, I’ve forgotten nearly everything I once knew about what was going on, so a lot of that clear-headed optimism will be…

I did not die in 2023. Optimistic about keeping that streak going in 2024. In order to encourage that sort of behavior, I’ve committed to checking in everyday. It’s a proof of life sort of thing. By committing to daily posting, I’m accomplishing several things at once. Will I make it a whole year without…

I’ve built this site, thought out the goals and the logic of this whole thing, and have left myself no choice but to actually create something. This is deeply unfortunate. I’d prefer to do nothing at all. Doing nothing is fantastic. It comes highly recommended. I try doing nothing all the time, but I’m pretty…

On April 30th, 1993, a guy named Tim launched the World Wide Web into the public domain. This is commonly seen as the birth of the internet, which is a lovely thought, but isn’t strictly true. The internet had existed for a full ten years prior to that, but had no common standard, which is…

Was I doing something here? I forgot this experiment existed.