Tobias Utz

As you can see, I moved my blog from a self-hosted Wordpress installation to Posterous. As Posterous allows me to post via email, I hope this encourages me to blog more. While setting up Wordpress on my own vserver was definitely a great learning experience, I found it very tedious to keep Wordpress and the server updated. Having my blog hosted on Posterous is one less thing to worry about and I'm still keeping my vserver for personal projects.

Hi there and welcome to my blog! I finally took the leap and updated my homepage to be a blog! I originally planned to write my own blog software in PHP but with studying and working I haven't gotten around to it yet and figured I might as well use wordpress until I find the time to roll my own. So why do I add another blog to the millions of others already on the web? The first iteration of my personal home page was just static HTML pages and it was a pain to edit them by hand if I wanted to add a new page or just a new entry to a page. (You can still find it online here) Therefore I rarely added new content and didn't write any articles or voice my opinions about events like the TechCrunch50 conference. I am quite late to the blogging game but I'm hoping that it makes it easier for me to write about things I think are worth writing about. With this blog I'm trying to achieve 3 goals: 1.) Prove and improve my communication skills especially regarding technical writing. 2.) Add some of my flavour to the internet by writing about events and topics that interest me. 3.) Showcase my (side)projects once they are worth showcasing. I will write most of my posts in English since it is the lingua franca of the world, except for topics that are only/mostly relevant to a German audience. Any comment, praise or criticism is welcome, feel free to contact me! Please be reminded that this is a work in progress ;) Things on the todo list are plugins, a customized theme and more blog entries.