News Goat has basically three purposes. First and foremost, it keeps me on track. There are various projects I start but, because nobody pays me to do them, I tend not to finish them. I've found that writing about them here provides me with a non-monetary form of motivation. Maybe it's the fact that somebody might be watching. Or maybe I like contributing to the general store of information that is the Internet. Whatever it is, it seems to work.

The second purpose is to keep family & friends up-to-date on what Angela & I are up to. Web logs seem like a more practical way of keeping in touch than e-mail. I never seem to find the time to e-mail people as often as I should. And sending out frequent updates to a group of people seems arrogant -- what if they don't care? So, for those of you who do care, this is where you can find out what's going on. I wish more of my family & friends did this.

And, finally, it's a learning tool. Between News Goat, Blog Goat, and the various other tools I'm creating for this, I'm learning a lot about programming and web design.

So, that's why I'm here. Now, why are you here? :-)