Jeff Billimek’s Journal

This is my very first web Journal entry.

Before today, I’ve been keeping a journal in a word document with entries going back to about 1995. Even though it goes back seven years, the frequency that I’ve updated it was very low. I hope this new project will motivate me to change that behavior and keep consistent journal entries.
Maybe I’ll edit those entries and post them to this journal with the appropriate dates.

What led me to Movabletype was first the realization that people were keeping online journals (from reading a wired article). From there, I went down the path to exploring LiveJournal, greymatter, and finally Movable Type. LiveJournal has the content on their servers and I want to be able to control every aspect of my content, so I looked into Greymatter and Movable Type. I finally settled on Movable Type because it seems to be more popular and it has features I think I’ll like.

While I was researching everything, I read ‘why web journals suck’ and decided that a web journal is still the right thing for me. When I told me girlfriend Michele my plans, she requested her own web journal. So if you click on her name, you will go to her web journal.

I spent what free time I had this weekend learning and configuring and setting up Movable Type for my journal. I have many ideas for expansion and customization based on what I’ve seen. The biggest thing I did was make everything into a php page and I borrowed the random banner image idea from tribolum.com (the photos here are all my own).

I’m really looking forward to increasing my php and css skills with this fun new project!

Listening to Everybody’s Talkin’ by Harry Nilsson and Without Me by Eminem while I wrote this.