I have a confession to make. This isn’t my first blog post, it’s my second. The first one was right about when Google bought Pyra Labs for their Blogger service. For those of you keeping track, that was just about three years ago. Suffice it to say, my first attempt didn’t take.

At the time, I was working at VA Software as Director of Engineering for the SourceForge enterprise product. As the engineering team grew, I spent less and less time with my hands dirty in technology and more time in product design and development process. (My last big commit to CVS was to update the year in a bunch of comments from 2002 to 2003. Touching nearly every file gave me a nice bump in our commit stats. :)) I have no real desire to write about personal stuff, and back then I didn’t feel strongly about writing about technology.

Fast forward three years. I’m knee-deep in the construction and day-to-day operation of Wikispaces, a free wiki host. Along with Adam and Dom, I’m one of three employees at our start-up, Tangient LLC. There’s a massive growth of the kind of consumer web properties that really spark my interest. I’ve got an increasingly long list of ideas and topics that someone else might possibly want to read about. So, I’m giving blogging a second try.

I’ll likely keep things confined to a few areas: Wikispaces and how we’re growing the service, the tools and technologies that make modern sites tick, new services of particular interest, and notes on my fascination with Alexa stats. Seriously.

But don’t worry - if I start posting about what the cats ate last night, some trippy experience I had while riding Muni, or rants on politics, I’ve instructed several friends to break all of my fingers.

We’ll see how it goes.