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title: A New Hope
date: '2008-11-24T17:23:00.000-05:00'
author: Anna Wiggins
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- meta
modified_time: '2013-10-22T11:19:50.569-04:00'
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I once had a blog on livejournal, titled <a title="My old blog" href="http://slashsplat.livejournal.com">slashsplat</a>.  This blog didn't see very many posts, because I had to log out of my personal journal to log in to it.  So I decided that a blog hosted somewhere other than livejournal would be a good idea.<br/><br/>That's the purpose of this site.  It will be somewhat more general; the goal of this blog is to discuss geek culture and everything that may mean to me:  programming, technology, gaming (video and table-top), and whatever else springs to mind.  However, each post will try to be an entity separate from myself; personal matters that I feel like ranting about will not appear here.  I have a personal journal for that, after all.<br/><br/>Anyone who feels like reading this little piece of the Internet is welcome to come along for the ride.  If it's just an exercise in self-indulgence, then so be it.<br/><br/>(Below this post, you may notice I've included all of the posts from slashsplat as well.  Those few posts span a lot of changes in my life, so the tone will vary as you venture farther back.)