Hello, world!

If you were reading my previous blog, you may remember the announcement of a move to this domain. It's finally done, and this is where I'll be blogging from now on. Yes, it has taken a little while… although only the last couple of months were spent on this particular attempt.

Entries here are likely to be technical, on the subjects of software development (especially Android), web design, system administration and related areas, but I'll keep them as accessible as I can. For more detail on what might appear here, see the About page.

There is an Atom feed, which is copied to at least InsaneJournal and LiveJournal (the old name shortcipher_ij works too), I'll tell Twitter (and thereby Facebook and Buzz) when I post, and if you'd like to be emailed, the site can do that too. Some of these mechanisms let you leave comments on copies of my entries on sites other than chris.boyle.name. It's not for me to object to anyone doing that, but I don't check those places and most of them won't notify me, so any time you want me to read a comment you've left elsewhere, send me an email or an IM.

As for the comments system here, I've tried to make it easy and painless to use. Anonymous comments are not allowed (spam) but you can use a variety of external accounts: OpenID (e.g. LJ and similar sites), Facebook, Twitter. If your account is already known to me, then you can immediately leave public comments, otherwise your comments will be held for moderation, just until I notice that my phone has lit up and approve your account. When I've done that, you can receive email notification of replies.

If you have a bug or a feature request for the site, there is a bug tracker or you can contact me. There probably will be a few bugs, as the site hasn't had much testing.