Minor Thoughts is a joint creation of Joseph Martin and C. Adam Volle.
We started our first blog, The Theocrats, after noticing that the “blog thing” was starting to look popular. We wanted to get in early and see what all of the type was about. So, we did. Adam wrote our first post on June 4, 2004. Theocrats was our attempt at writing about the Christian life and what having King God was really all about. It was a good first attempt at blogging, but it didn’t work out quite the way we’d hoped.
So, we started a new blog here at Minor Thoughts. We’ll observe the world around us, ask questions, and look for answers. We don’t have all of the answers, even though we sometimes act like we do. We’ll do our best to find them and, along the way, we’ll tell you our biases and do our best to keep open minds.
SERVER SOFTWARE
We host the Minor Thoughts web site on a Joyent Shared Accelerator.
Articles and links are published through WordPress. Minor Thoughts uses the PHP Markdown Extra plug-in, based on Markdown created by John Gruber, and the WPtouch iPhone Theme to display posts. Minor Thoughts uses the Twitter Tools, FD Feedburner, and Comment Notifier plug-ins to keep readers appraised of new content. Minor Thoughts uses the Simple Tags plug-in to help organize content and the OpenID plug-in to help organize users. Finally, this site uses the Akismet plug-in to keep the site clear of spam and the WP Super Cache plug-in to ensure that all of the pages load quickly.
The proprietor of this site tracks visitor stats using Mint, Google Analytics, and Site Meter as he is unable to settle on a single system.
WEB STANDARDS
Web standards are important, and this site adheres to them. Specifically, Minor Thought’s HTML markup should validate as XHTML 1.0 Strict, its layout is constructed using valid CSS, and its syndicated feed is valid Atom.
If Minor Thoughts looks goofy in your browser, you’re likely using a browser that doesn’t support web standards. Internet Explorer, I’m looking in your direction. If you complain about this, I will ignore you, because I do not care. If, however, you are using a modern, standards-compliant browser and have trouble viewing or reading Minor Thoughts, please do let me know.
(The initial text and style of this page was shamelessly stolen from the Daring Fireball Colophon.)