Several months ago I decided I would finally enter the world of weblogs. I’ve had a list of ideas going for sometime and it was finally time to take the plunge and develop them. Like many others I looked at the usual suspects: Moveable Type, Wordpress, Expression Engine, etc. One thing that started to influence my choice was Ruby on Rails. In the last 9 months or so I’ve had lots of opportunity to work inside of the MVC model so it eventually became a criteria that the solution rely on rails. At the time I knew of only two players within the rails world, Typo and Mephisto. Many were making the move to Mephisto and the plugin architecture was growing with the community, I thought it was a no brainer. Then Garrett Dimon wrote his post titled ”A Closer Look at SimpleLog”. It completely changed my perspective, I was faced with a choice between a blogging solution that clearly had more features and a solution that at the time looked like a stripped down but very elegant tool. I tried a version a friend had installed and over the next few days really wrestled with making the choice, I wanted the tool that would ideally help me to write more often and flesh out my ideas faster. In the end user experience won me over and I installed Simplelog as my blogging solution.

I have a son, that in June will be 3 years old. About 5 months ago we decided it was time to introduce him to every boy’s (and girl’s) favorite past time… LEGOs. He took right to them, building, tearing down, building, tearing down, well you get the idea. After awhile I started to get sucked in and before I knew it I was a 6 year old again in LEGO world, or what we called back then a “LEGO maniac”. While working with my son, building airplanes, helicopters, cars, I started to realize something… the object you build is good until you find that next piece and then it becomes better, well that is until you find another piece that could even make it better than the last.