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Moving into WordPress

I’ve been away from tech for a while. Mrs. Mata tells me that she has never seen me happier than when I worked with computers. Life and work got in the way and I wound up putting tech aside. I still have the instinct, but am lagging behind on what I could have been by now.

Yesterday, I went to BarCamp Austin II at the invitation of Jennifer Navarrete from the Morning Brewcast. I was not going to stay at BarCamp very long because I wanted to go on a bike ride in Johnson City. Once I was there, I could not leave.

I learned some things about what’s out there and where the tech culture has moved since I walked away years ago. WordPress seems to be where the community has moved for blogging. I was reluctant at first, but Erica O’Grady showed me a validation of my Blogger site and all kinds of errors popped up. Just to make it easier on myself, I decided to create this WordPress blog.

Something else I noted at BarCamp Austin was that the majority of the people present were using Macs rather than PCs. Even though PCs dominate the market, it says a lot when tech-savvy people prefer the computer in the minority. When the time comes for me to change laptops, which is soon, I’ll be going with a Mac. My current laptop can’t handle podcasts anymore. With each Windows update, it slows down more and more. I’m at the point where I can only use the laptop for doing online work. My laptop is has become a browsing appliance.