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+About
+=====
+
+Hello! My name is Brian Neal. By day I am a real-time, embedded C++ programmer. By night and
+on the weekends I like to hack on interesting projects in Python_. Right now I am mainly 
+focused on web development.
+
+My interests in web development began several years ago when I started a community-based
+website for instrumental surf music fans. I simply downloaded a popular PHP CMS system, set
+it up, and opened shop. Very quickly bugs appeared. "No problem", I thought, "I'm a programmer,
+I can fix this." Opening up that code in a text editor was quite shocking and disappointing.
+It was obvious I had chosen a framework built by amatuers with no concern for security, efficiency,
+standards, or any kind of software engineering discipline. I spent about 2 years working on the
+code with a group of dedicated enthusiasts, but eventually grew tired of the sprawling, cut & paste
+spaghetti code. It was simply too broken and too tedious to make fundamental changes.
+
+I started looking around for other alternatives and discoved Django_. I had some limited experience
+with Python from work, and Django looked incredibly useful. Django allowed me to concentrate more
+on my application and less on the "grunt work." Once I had created a small website for a friend's 
+band, I knew I was hooked. I then sent out on a nearly 2 year mission to rewrite my growing website
+with Django and Python. The rewrite finally went live about 2 weeks before I attended my first 
+PyCon_ in 2011.
+
+This blog will be mainly about my experiences in web development and Python. C++ and my day job may
+sneak into the blog from time to time as well. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to
+contact me via any of the links in the sidebar or by email (*bgneal at gmail dot com*).
+
+Disclaimer
+----------
+
+I hope this is obvious, but please bear with me. This blog reflects my own personal opinions and 
+not those of any past, present, or future employers. I hope the information found herein is useful 
+to others, but I may in fact be on crack and I make no warranties of any nature. This blog is a
+snapshot of my thoughts in time. I may change my mind as I learn more and gain further
+experience.
+
+Some blog posts may allow comments. Please note that I reserve the right to remove comments for any 
+reason at any time.
+
+Colophon
+--------
+
+This blog was created with Pelican_, Python_, reStructuredText_, Mercurial_,
+Vim_, Fabric_, and Bootstrap_.
+
+.. _Python: http://python.org
+.. _Django: http://djangoproject.com
+.. _PyCon: http://us.pycon.org
+.. _Pelican: http://getpelican.com/
+.. _Bootstrap: http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/
+.. _reStructuredText: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html
+.. _Mercurial: http://mercurial.selenic.com/
+.. _Fabric: http://fabfile.org
+.. _Vim: http://www.vim.org