Welcome to My Weblog

Greetings! Welcome to my little corner of the Blogosphere. While I am well aware that there are many places where one may join and create an account from which to launch a blog, I kind of wanted to try and roll my own. I was looking for something that would be very easy to customize the way I wanted. I was also looking for a means to set up something that would manage the content in an orderly fashion. Many such Blogging software packages exist, with Wordpress probably living at the top of the list in popularity.

To be sure, Wordpress is a very fine application. Even though there are literally thousands of prepackaged themes available, many Wordpress blogs look just that: Wordpress! I do fully understand that I could have used Wordpress and created my own theme to individualize my blog, but then I stumbled across Expression Engine. This indeed resembled what I was looking for, so this site is a chance to give it a try. There is a great degree of flexibility to be found in this software, and though many may just want to get directly to the blogging I am a system administrator and also find the mechanics interesting.

So the bottom line here is this site isn’t meant to be taken too seriously. Perhaps it might be a good idea to explain my perspective some, as the manner in which the content is presented may be better understood. Humans are social beasts as much as any other species on the planet. The segregation by groups and status, both in and out of the group, is essential in order to create a social hierarchy. Various mechanisms exist to rank both the individual and groups alike within the order of the hierarchy. Those born with the normal social instincts innately understand how to function within this system.

There are many who are atypical in the development of characteristics enabling them to function well within this paradigm. The most common are the autistic spectrum disorders of the variety which do not debilitate entirely. This is known as “High Function Autism”. It is receiving new interest as it has been noticed in recent years that there seems to be clusters of relatively large numbers of children being born with this affliction. While there are numbers of differing affects associated with this, the largest and most central is the lack of the innate social function mechanism of the so-called “normal” people.

What this produces is the stereotyped “geeky” type who just doesn’t quite “fit in” with the social world of the “neuro-normal”. It also produces an “outside looking in” perspective. The population in the town down in the valley is busy going about the tasks of the day, but it is the hermit above on the mountain who can see the disaster approaching them from the distance. Even if he were to risk running into the town to warn them, his words would fall on deaf ears. The people wouldn’t be listening because he wasn’t talking about anything germaine to the social order of the day. So realize that the content here is the proverbial “outsider looking in”, and is being expressed from that particular kind of viewpoint.