First post

I'm starting a blog again.  Since I unwittingly lost the domain to my prior blog of moderate readership, Passive Digressive, I've been using Facebook Notes solely as a place for writing my thoughts.  But, as anyone who would be interested in reading this blog will probably already know, Facebook is a "walled garden" which ensnares your data and doesn't let it out (though I must credit them for providing Notes feeds, but it's not enough for my purposes).  I wanted a place with a potential readership extending beyond my immediate social network, since the vast majority of said network is not interested in reading ruminations on Ruby, Rails, and software development and design in general.

So there you have it, welcome to Tao of Chris.  I'll be writing on a variety of topics here, ranging from the professional to the spiritual to the mundane or just plain interesting.  And, since Facebook is so eager to accept new data, these entries will be automatically imported into my Facebook Notes so that I'll still be able to tag entries for friends who might be interested in a particular post.

Ah, open-ended technology.

Expect more downstyle entry titles and exposition in the near future.