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It's good to keep a diary, people in general are forgetful, including me.
"Blog" is the shortened form of "web log", as the name has it, I'll keep a log of my daily happenings.

Anyway, I found programming to my liking, so I'm going to post some self-indulgent mumbo-jumbo about C/C++ - occasionally other languages perhaps? - to this innocent, untouched blog.

Ooops! Now I touched that! It's no longer innocent.
So, this is how things start, right?

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