Geekdinner Leuven

Just got back from another nice Geekdinner, in Leuven this time. It was
especially pleased to see two of my fellow students again (hello Jan and
Koen!). I also got the chance to try one of these things much beloved in the
geek community these days: a “plooifiets”. Not sure if it’s something for me
though.

Anyway, Wouter convinced me to subscribe
to Planet Grep with my still freshly
smelling weblog. I guess that’s an honour, so… here we go!

One of the things he said was that “having an audience” might help keeping
up the blogging. I don’t really believe this. Although “having an audience”
might spur some short-term enthusiasm, I really believe that blogging is
something you need to do for yourself. Because you want to do it yourself.
Has something to do with internal and external motivators.

Anyway, maybe I should tell “my audience” something now: I don’t allow
comments or messages on my blog. It’s my blog after all,
isn’t it. If you really feel like reacting, please do! But use your own blog
for that and link back to my post’s permalink when doing so. I feel that if
it’s too easy to react to my writings on my own space, I will (1) loose too much
time keeping up with the comments and probably cleaning up spam and other
unwanted things, and (2) more importantly, I guess I’d feel restricted from
writing exactly what I want to write. Now, there’s absolutely no reason for me
to stay (politically or otherwise) correct!

One last thing. I’ll probably always blog in English, but the odd Dutch or
French word might pop up once in a while.