After giving those that inquire a condensed version of “my life” to date, the almost universal response has been “you should write a book!”. Having heard this over and over, I decided that yeah, maybe I should. The final straw as it were, was the encouragement from an author who, at the time, was the head of the English language department at Laval University in Quebec City, Quebec. He said, among other things, that I had a nice writing style. Good enough for me.

In the intervening 5 years or so, I have managed to amass somewhere in the neighbourhood of 1.4 million words on the subject. Mostly in note form and the majority of which were created in the NoteTaker™ application on G4 iBook. Initially I had envisioned a traditional approach, you know, a book format. But the more I wrote, the more I realized that my style was not that. As evidenced here, it is more of a “notes” style as opposed to a narrative.  Then to was the matter of how to distribute the result. Various ideas came to mind. A complete “work” self-published via Lulu.com or the like, on a dedicated web site in “book” format, or some combination. It was my recent “conversion” to WordPress from Joomla! that sealed the deal. Once I saw what WordPress 3.0 could do and how easy it was to do it, the decision was made. Switch over the existing LyleChamney.com from Joomla! to WordPress 3.0 and do it in a blog format based upon dates.

As dates are how I functioned when creating my notes, this seemed to be the ideal way to make it available here. It also will allow me the flexibility to create the posts in a non-liner manner. They can be created for any date and as long as I set them to the correct category, they will be in chronological order.

So away I go. This is the first post and it will be in the Introduction category. Bookmark or subscribe to keep up with the latest skivvy.