Here we go.

I am officially Web 2.0 now.  Awesome.  I feel different.  I feel sexier.  I feel more enlightened.  I feel slightly light-headed…that might be the heater leaking.  I should tell maintenance about that.

I feel lame for not starting a blog until now, but to be fair I’ve always been two steps behind the trend makers and innovators in internet technology.  Not big steps, but small steps, like the kind made by a baby or a man with a wooden leg.  Or a Cormorant.

So here I am.  Blogging.  Who am I, you may ask?   Aside from the future best-blogger-of-the-year award winner, I am just a man.  A man named Evan.  Details follow.

My name is Evan Hamilton. I was born on January 5th, 1985 in Grass Valley, California. I’ve always lived in California; I went to college in Santa Cruz and currently live in Oakland (yes, 109-murders-a-year Oakland. I live in the nice part.).  I’ve always been creative. As a kid I wanted to draw comics for a living.   In high school I led a mapmaking group for the game Myth II and tried to make a computer game with that group.  In college I designed theatrical lighting and started my band.

Now I work for Flock, a software company that is building an amazing web browser that defies one-sentence explanation.  And the band is still going strong.

So why start a blog, aside from that obnoxious pride that will come from saying “oh yeah, I blogged about that last month” before casually flipping open my iPhone (once I sell a kidney so I can afford one)?

I guess I’m tired of limited self-expression.  I love writing lyrics and music for the band, and my bandmates don’t care if I rant drunkenly to our fans through MySpace bulletins.  But I want a place to be Evan Hamilton, jack-of-many-trades.  I’ll blog about Flock, the band, my life, cool things I’ve found, music, and whatever the hell I feel like.

I guess that’s what Web 2.0 really is: whatever the hell I (you/we) feel like today.  Cool…I like that.

-Evan

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