Toni Westbrook dot Com

The Joy of Computer Science and Engineering

Hi All –

I made a few updates to the site to hopefully make things a little more informative/usable. I’ve added the following:

1. A comment subscription plugin, so when you leave a comment, you can sign up to be notified via email if anyone else comments (either a response from me or other users commenting). These comment subscriptions can be managed and removed if desired. I did this as there is no real way right now of knowing if someone replied to your comment without constantly checking back at the site.
2. A project page for my Drupal z-machine project, Gruepal. It describes the project so far, goals, and has links to the devlog.
3. A link on the main page that shows all posts, newest first. This is a shortcut from going to each month’s archive.

As always, thanks for reading, I hope I’ve provided some helpful information/entertainment through my posts over the past year.

So, the last week or so I’ve been thinking a lot about the direction I want this blog to go. I’ve decided to widen the areas I talk about to include the following:

1. Personal Entries – not so much in a “today I had an excellent ham sandwich” way, but there are often times when I want to write about things going in my life that are technology or computer science related, and I don’t have a good forum to do that. I would love to have a place where I can post thoughts and quick ideas, and I figured this blog would be a good choice.

2. Technology (non-CS) tutorials – especially in the area of retrocomputing, there are a lot of times when I’m looking to do something, can’t find a great solution that’s already been done online, so I have to experiment and find my own path. I would like to post my experiences to hopefully help someone else avoid some headaches. This happens quite a lot with working with older machines, due to the fact that there is a lot of information that simply didn’t make it to the Internet. If a computer was only semi-popular in the early 80s and not used since, it’s often hard to find information.

3. Who knows what else?

I basically want to use this blog for more things, as well as be a little more active documenting things going on with Shredz64 and the PSX64. So I hope you’ll read along and perhaps find some useful information!