Sometime this month FerretArmy.com will become 1 year old. It’s high time to talk about the rather mundane history of the site, I guess.

I bought FerretArmy.com and FerretRevolution.com last year as my personal website. FerretRevolution is just another url that I bought in case I wanted it at some point for any other projects – as of now it still redirects to FerretArmy.com, but I’ll keep it around in case I do find a use for it. About the name – I didn’t have any really good ideas on what I wanted to name the site, so I just threw some more or less random words together. I’ve never been particularly partial to ferrets – I’ve never owned one, but they’re kinda cute I guess. I was planning on changing the name someday, but it’s grown on me, so it stays for now.

The site spent about a month in various states of ugliness until I settled on WordPress as my blog platform of choice. Before that I tried a few other engines, none of which I was very fond of. It crossed my mind to write the site from the ground up, but that would have been a very long-term project, one I was loathe to endeavor upon. I’ve been very happy with WordPress over the past year – I recommend it highly as a blogging platform and as a light content management system if you’re crafty.

My goal is to try to write a post a week – actually, I’d love to hit two posts or more a week, but there’s only so many hours in the day. I write about a pretty eclectic range of subjects. There’s no real rhyme or reason to my system, though the most common themes are programming, music, and video games. There have been about 50 posts in the past year, and I suspect many more to follow this one. If you’ve got any suggestions on how to improve the site or articles, feel free to send in a comment – I’m happy to listen.