A Humble Manifesto

Hello World!

Here's what you need to know about me, what I'm going to do with this blog, and what I want out of this blog.

I'm Chris Murphy. I'm a Computer Science major at the small, liberal arts school known as Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. Bowdoin has a very small CS department, consisting of mostly shockingly good Robocup nerds and brilliant GIS folk.

I am neither. While my interests vary over time, they have always centered around computers. The course of this blog will describe my current interests.

Speaking of this blog...
In my mind, this blog is still a murky cloud; a cloud that may form into one of many ideas, or may float on as a confluence of my varied interests.
I figure that by admitting to the Internet (and myself) up front that this blog has no predestination, I may actually end up with something worth reading.

As I envision it right now, this blog will document my learning process. Although I'll try to stay focused on technology related items, who knows what I'll end up learning.


Now, what do I want out of this blog? I want more knowledge. I want to sharpen my writing skills, which have largely been neglected since high school [despite the best efforts of my liberal arts education...;)]. I want to display my work (in all subjects) and be shown why it's horribly wrong.
I don't have any aspirations of anyone ever reading this blog. But perhaps some day, I will write something that someone reads. And when that someone reads it, I hope they post a comment politely describing what's wrong with it.

Why do I want to do this? I love learning. I strongly believe that everything in the world has some facet of interest, and I hope to find the tastiest facets and share them with the world. Also, while I largely love the professors at Bowdoin, I think I need more than one person giving comments on my work, or guiding me on how to solve problems. With the help of the Internet, maybe this blog can provide that, and I can get better. As they say, evolve or die.


That's all for tonight, folks. See you when I learn something cool.