My god, I can’t believe I’m writing a third post already. This blogging thing is really catching on. What’ll I do next, start a flickr account? Oh wait…done already.

I updated my about page too. Figured that’s probably with a higher priority since it was just sitting there with template text all over the place. That’s as bad as buying one of those picture frames with multiple places to put your pictures and filling up all but one spot, leaving somebody else’s baby/dog/brother sitting there grinning on your wall like there’s some kind of inside joke in the room that nobody knows about but them. But of course your friends come over and ask you who that dog/cat/squirrel on the wall is and why they’ve never met them. Then you explain that it’s not your picture of a dog, just the one that target bought from some poor asian guy on the street for a $2.50 exclusive license. Then you realize that it’s not a picture of a dog at all, but actually a baby, and you and your friends really feel like jackasses now, all because you didn’t bother to take more pictures and fill in all the picture frames. Lessons from this adventure? Don’t buy those multi-frames from Target. But I digress.

Here’s what I put up on the about page, in case you never click on about pages and actually want to know what I’m all about:

My name is Chris Carter. I work for Confluent Data Systems, Inc, a small software and consulting company based in Wenatchee, WA. I serve as the CTO. I’m also a founder of the company.

We started Love Washington Wine, an e-commerce and marketing company focused on increasing and selling the Washington Wine brand. Love Washington Wine sells a variety of labels from many incredible boutique wineries in Washington State.

We’re also helping to develop US West Energy Solutions, a green energy product distribution company, including the Hallowell Heat Pump, Proliphix Web Enabled Thermostat, and Energy Tracking Web Enabled Meter.

I’m interested in all technology, science, wine, photography, politics, and life. I’ll probably blog about most of those topics.

Most blogs start with a first post. So here it is. First. Primero. Zuerst. I guess you’ve got to start somewhere. These posts usually consist of the blogger excitedly talking about the future of their blog, expounding on how the visitor should check back soon for the next great article they’re going to write. Most bloggers write that next article, then maybe a few more. These articles center on the awesome shark they caught fishing, or their incredible skydiving experience, topping out with a magnificent lemon merengue pie they tried at some obscure bakery in a place you don’t live. Pretty exciting stuff!

Well, I vowed to myself that I’m not going to do that.

My name is Chris. I work for a small company in Wenatchee, WA called Confluent Data Systems. I’m the Chief Technology Officer there. I don’t fish for sharks, I’ve never jumped out of a plane, and to be honest, I’m not the biggest fan of lemon merengue (I had to look up the spelling on Google). I do take pictures though - I’m finally getting back into photography. I haven’t touched it really since high school, but I love it. It’s a great hobby, and I’d love to sell my prints some day for enough money to finance my travels.

There you go. Here’s a picture of a cat that I took. I’m so non-conformist when it comes to blogging that this isn’t even MY cat.