I made my first web site in 1996, learning HTML from online resources and hosting it at the University of Minnesota once they told me all grad students there could do so. It was a blog (before the term was even coined) called “Tore’s Official Concert Guide” – basically, reviews of concerts I went to. I kept it up through different iterations on different web hosts for about six years, until I let it die when I started blogging for TromsøBy.

Since then, I have tried a few times to keep a blog, but it seems that without a clearly defined topic I have a hard time writing timely and interesting content for a personal blog (I do it all the time for work!). For even a personal blog to have the right to live, it should be updated reasonably often.

Hence, the anti-blog. Just because I rarely have the time, inclination, inspiration and/or ability to write anything that is of interest to people other than my very supportive wife, does not mean I never do. Now and then I will write articles (I won’t call them blog posts) on this site, free from the pressure to do so often.

I still share links, pictures, short commentary, etc. in the original sense of the term weblog – you can follow me on Twitter if you are interested.