Hello everyone and welcome to my site. Now that zingman.com is ten years old, I thought it was time to do something a bit more “Web 2.0” while it’s still trendy. So I stared a blog.<\/p>\n
By way of introduction, let me just mention that I am a software developer and designer, and also a musician and origami artist. <\/span>The idea behind this blog is all about the creative process, and resulting works. <\/span>I want to provide an entry point to pages that change elsewhere on my site, for example when I post something new, such as songs I’ve made or origami models, or interactive software, art work or whatever. <\/span>Also I want to comment on the creative process of my work as it evolves, and hopefully get some interesting discussions going on. <\/span>On top of that I will probably be some of the usual bloggish commentary on random things that I see on the street, or in the media, or that are a part of my life and times.<\/p>\n But first things first. <\/span>As you might have noticed, the look of this page has nothing to do with the design of anything else on my site. <\/span>So now that the blog engine is up and running, the next order of business is to make it look like it belongs on my site. <\/span>I hope to do this in fairly short order, but then again…<\/p>\n Attentive readers might observer that I started this blog last November around Thanksgiving, and this really blog 2.0 for me. <\/span>So here is what happened. <\/span>I started the first blog using Blogger, and set it up to uploaded the blog into my website. <\/span>I got as far as Hello World with that, and then had to confront the style question. <\/span>Blogger provided a bunch of preset styles to choose from, none of which was satisfactory, and all of them overdetermined, like a room covered in ornate wallpaper when all you want is white and blank. <\/span>My own aesthetic in these things generally runs toward minimalistic, which often has additional virtue of being simpler to implement. <\/span>So I went ahead and started hand-editing my own style sheet. <\/span>This is something I can do, but it’s a bit of a drag, so it took a few weeks to get there, and around Christmastime I was ready to debut my new blog. <\/span>But then Blogger upgraded their software and I got locked out of my account; they seem to have lost my username and password. <\/span>Oy!<\/p>\n So here I am starting over which WordPress, which has the great advantage of being completely self-contained on my server, without relying on some 3rd party. <\/span>So that’s cool, and it’s off to a good start. <\/span>Now back to the style question. Looks like there are some style editing tools available , so we’ll see how that goes…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hello everyone and welcome to my site. Now that zingman.com is ten years old, I thought it was time to do something a bit more “Web 2.0” while it’s still trendy. So I stared a blog. By way of introduction, let me just mention that I am a software developer and designer, and also a … Continue reading “Welcome”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}