I spent a fair amount of time this afternoon creating a website for our wedding. It's also done through blogger.com, but this time I'm fiddling with the template a bit more, and as a result I'm finally learning a little something about HTML. A very little something.

HTML strikes me as a neat language, and I imagine that most computer languages are "neat" in the same way. The vocabulary is, relative to a spoken language, quite small. Instead of a big vocab, there's a complex grammar that holds most of the meaning. I've got more ideas swirling around in my head, but I can't really give them voice without learning a bit more first. I'm now more aware than ever that I should take a look at some real code (plenty of open source stuff out there to inspect), and should probably learn at least the basics of C++ at some point. Half of it is an interest in programming, but the other half is a longstanding interest in how information can be encoded and processed. Connections to DNA and how the brain stores, retrieves, and computes all come to mind.