This is the home page of Brent Blood. You probably came here to read my weblog.

Lots of people seem to make it here in odd ways, and you might be wondering if this is the same Brent Blood you once knew (or maybe still do). If you are from anywhere near Erie, PA, then it is. If you attended or taught at Penn State, then it is. If you live in central Washington state, then it is. If you still think it might be me, read my mini-autobiography.

Now if you did just make it here from links or a search engine but weren't really looking specifically for me, there's most definately something here you will enjoy. You can spy on me at work with the webcam or peek at what I'm watching on my television. I have kept a weblog now for a few years, long enough at least that it wasn't known as a weblog back then... but the idea has caught on with the masses so that's what I call mine now. Plus the usuals like links. I've got a bunch of pictures that I'll get up some time.

You can stop reading this page now.

As for the site itself, the design is intended to display well in any browser which can properly render XHTML and CSS2, but with pain taken to ensure that it degrades gracefully regardless of what you view it in. It might not look all that wonderful, but at least the content will be available. I won't complain about your browser if you don't complain about my design! I didn't check anything in Netscape 4.x or less and I assume that it is going to look bad. I'm ok with that. If for whatever reason, you can't read the content, please let me know - it's the important part. I need to create a formal accessibility statement.

This site is powered by a piece of software I wrote and depends on several pieces of Sun's Java 2 Enterprise Edition software stack. The source code for it is free for you to take and do with it whatever you want, as long as you give me some of the credit. It was designed to be a weblog system better than everything else out there, both from a functionality standpoint and raw performance. I've always had complaints with every other solution I looked at or wrote myself, so this is my ongoing effort to do it right. Like any truly open source project, I encourage any outside hacking on it to contribute back to the original codebase so that others can benefit. But since there are literally hundreds of open source weblog systems out there, I don't expect any of that to happen. It's the thought that counts though, right?