About

Welcome to my blog. I’m Brent Logan. I’m married, have four kids, and work as an engineering manager for Intel. I should mention that having four kids, we also have a dog, a bird, a chinchilla, and two fish. That doesn’t count the snakes, frogs, and spiders we seem to collect in jars with holes poked in the lids. We’re definitely not bored. ;-)

I’ve been online since the late 80’s, when I was running a “point plus node” in Fidonet using the tagline:

blogan >>--> hot air powers the point  (1:105/4.27)

That was long before blogs and people were more likely to pronounce blogan with a long “O” sound, making it rhyme with blowgun. Times have sure changed.

I had a web site in the early 90’s advertising my business at the time and even sold a domain name. Although it was probably good money at the time, I don’t want to talk about what a 5-letter, common English word, dot-com domain would be worth now.

Now I’m blogging, tweeting, Facebooking, etc. I write about what interests me. I hope you will find it interesting, too. Take a look around, read some articles, and leave a comment.

Come back any time.

Not so fine print

This is a personal web log. My words are my own and not anyone else’s, certainly not Intel’s. I typically don’t blog about anything pertaining to my work or Intel’s business. That way I don’t have to worry about revealing confidential information and you don’t need to worry about conflicts of interest or hidden agendas.

Comment policy

Leaving comments on my blog is like having a conversation with my guests and me in my living room. Please keep your comments polite and on topic, with no YELLING, insulting or name calling, inappropriate profanity, defamation of character, illegal behavior, or spam.

I reserve the right to delete any comments not appropriate for my blog. If you violate any of the rule I listed above, I’ll delete it. If your author link is not to a personal blog, I may delete the link or your comment. If the name you leave is a business name instead of a person’s name, I may delete your comment.

I won’t delete your comment just because you disagree with me, argue powerfully, and make me look stupid. If you stay on topic and use clean language; your comment will likely remain.

I reserve the right to edit your comment. If you use profanity, I might choose to edit out the offending words and replace them with cute, fluffy words. Or put in *st*r*sks. More likely though, I’ll just delete it. If your comment includes something that extends into the margins (e.g., code, long URL), I will likely edit your comment’s formatting. If your comment includes extensive quoting, I may edit out the quotes. If you don’t like my editing, let me know and I’ll likely delete it instead.

If you find an offensive comment here, please recognize I didn’t write it (unless I did) and might not agree with it. Sometimes, not deleting the posts of those you disagree with is the best way to expose their (lack of) thinking.

Advertising

The Amazon books links on the Books page and in some of the posts are affiliate links. Supposedly, if someone clicks on those links and then purchase something from Amazon, I can make some money. I use these links for my convenience, not to make money. I used to hand build links with pictures of book covers. This is much easier.

I have removed all other ads from my blog. The visual clutter wasn’t worth the money and limited which Creative Commons licensed material I can use.

Acknowledgments

I am using the Vector Social Media Icons for my social networking links.

Copyright license

This work by Brent Logan is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

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