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This is the first in a series of posts I've planned to explain what the Daily Parker blog engine actually is, how it works, and what's coming. I'll start with the most basic question: what the heck is a blog engine and why did I write one from scratch?

A longtime Daily Parker reader asked this about yesterday's post: "The Daily Parker costs $4.87 per day" -- I'm really hoping that's a misprint, because that's almost $150 a month, which is ten times what I pay for my web hosting package which comes with unlimited domains, a full email service (IMAP+SMTP over TLS), click-to-install WordPress and MySQL database creation, SSH access to the back-end Linux machine, and excellent customer support. Also -- and I *really* hate to say this to a fellow IT...

This post has a personal and a technical significance. Personally: exactly 10,000 days ago, I was graduated from high school, at about this time of day. Technically: The new blog engine let me pre-post this several days ahead, something the old blog engine thought it could do but never quite succeeded. That is all.