Purpose of this blog

I originally installed this blog thinking I would move my Blogger blog over here. But that never happened, and for I while I used this site as a backup of the Blogger blog. Then after I took a tour of the Open Source grids, I decided to use this blog to record my experiences with OpenSim.

Danton Sideways is my avatar in Second Life. Danton’s adventures in Second Life are told in my blog on Blogger, which can be found here:

http://dantonsideways.blogspot.com

One day in February 2008, when I tried to connect to Danton’s blog on Blogger, my Kaspersky firewall blocked the web page. As I tell in a post called Blogger Blowout, this upsetting bug made me want to move my blog, and I created this Wordpress blog for that purpose. But a few days after I had installed and activated the Wordpress software, my local French web hosting service had a massive blowout that took them offline for more than 24 hours straight. Meanwhile Blogger fixed the bug that caused my firewall to block the site, so I decided to leave Danton’s main blog in Blogger Beatitude.

I then thought I might use this wordpress blog to make a backup copy of my Second Life blog, just in case I accidentally deleted the other one, or something like that. But I never used this blog for that either, and it has just been sitting inactive ever since.

Until today, when I’ve found a new purpose for this blog. As I tell on my main blog, I recently took a tour of the Open Source grids. Following that tour I began to seriously study the Open Source grid tools, and to fool around with both the OpenSim software and the libsecondlife protocol. I now want to start chronicling my adventures in the realm of Open Source, but I would prefer to keep this apart from my chronicle of Danton’s adventures in Second Life.  So welcome to Danton’s Open Source Blog.