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 I’m Nathan Scott.  I just got my Masters degree in Computer Science from UNB.  This is my personal blog.  I generally stay away from anything professional or consequential.  I generally just talk about the music that I’m listening to and the games that I’m playing.  I like to pretend people care!

Smiling Politely began when I decided to move my personal blog off of campus-provided hosting and give it it’s own domain name and commenting abilities and an RSS feed and other fancy then-new-fangled features.  I actually coded everything myself because I felt like it, though the result was a pretty messy structure held together with toothpicks and chewing gum.  SP 1.0 lasted for quite some time, and was actually updated fairly regularly.

After a while, tiring of the ungainly nature of the My-First-PHP-App that was my blogging engine, I decided to do the sensible thing and install some actual blogging software.  SP 2.0 ran on B2Evolution  because… I can’t remember what my reasoning was.  The most notable new feature was the excessive amount of comment spam I then had to struggle with.  The second most notable new feature was the fact that I invited several friends and enemies to co-author the blog, hoping to reduce those periods of lapse where I wasn’t updating myself.  This worked great, until it stopped working great, and nobody but me wrote anything, and I only wrote things rarely.

So I took my toys and went home.  Installed Wordpress just because.  Welcome to Smiling Politely 3.0.