So I have been contemplating the start of a personal BLOG for some time now. I have finally decided that I have to much pent-up anger, emotion and controversy to keep this to myself.

So what better forum to post my thoughts than BLiNC Magazine...?

I mean really. All we stand for is indifference! Right?

The real reason I want to blog here is just to be able to vent my viewpoints about life that happens.

mknutson

Finding new friends to jump with...Part 2

The forum was running for almost a year and I started noticing that people where joining from all over the country. They where meeting here on BLiNC, contacting each other then would start traveling to jump in more and more locations. I thought this was a great use of BLiNC.

Then one week I got sent from SF to Indianapolis for a 2 week project. So i thought I would put my first post about travelling on BLiNC on the Tuesday after...

mknutson

The question keeps coming up "How did BLiNC" start?

Well, this is quite a long story, so I will BBLoG this in phases....

A long, long time ago (1994)....

I had been trying to use my new found Internet programming knowledge on a real world application, not just a well formatted resume. Up to that point, there was very little in world of the Internet. And prior to that, I was a distributed control system developer (DCS) in refineries in Houston Texas, then in...

mknutson

I decided to go ahead and get the Blog plug-in for the forum. I have been going back-and-forth on it, but decided to do it.

I also plan to give a few select publishers their own Blog. In addition to that, the moderators will have a Blog.

I then plan to only allow BLiNC supporters to have a Blog, not just anyone. This is for 2 reasons.

1. BLiNC costs considerable time and money. So I would like to foster a sense of community involvement and help. It will be appreciated.
2. SPAM!

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mknutson