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What is this about

This blog is a simple experiment for now, to understand what is available for a "scratchpad on the Web." I have a picture which is something more like a lab notebook for my various hacking projects. The requirements are roughly access from various places where hacking might happen; an idea for a project can happen at work, but I don't want my personal laptop with me at all times. some kind of permanence, as suits a lab notebook. Various things this might mean: version control with timestamping no revisions allowed at all (this seems extreme: one wants to separate a polished presentation view from the underlying archival lab notebook. One can revise slides for a talk without altering the historical record of the lab notebook) ability to archive into a big .tgz for burning to disk as necessary flexible project documentation easy way to archive associated files; diffs, error messages, screen shots, sketches, links, data sheets downloaded for the web. perhaps I