Welcome to my first "blogging" website! Yes, this site is dedicated to keeping everyone up to date on my progress in training and fundraising for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. The particular fundraising event I'm participating in is called Team in Training, and its an "endurance" related sports event where we athletes and non-athletes alike strive to raise a substantial amount of money and endure an equally substantial athletic event. Some of the events include a half-marathon, full-marathon, 100-mile bike ride, and similiar events all across the country. So that's what this site is for. Please read ahead for more technical info on this site.
This site is currently powered by the Moveable Type (MT) personal publishing system, or content management system. This is one of the more popular fairly new breeds of website software for making quick websites suitable for updating in a diary-like fashion for online readers... an activity referred to as "blogging" or "web logging". This particular program only requires CGI access on the server, and can use flat text files in the Berkley DB format (as I'm using) or also make use of a MySQL or PostreSQL database.
I figured this would be the most suitable type of site for this activity I'm engaged in, because I'm sure you will all want to know "how is Brian doing?" with his Team in Training event? Well, I hope you find all your answers here. I'm completely open for comments on how to make this site better and better serve "you" -- my donating contributors and sponsors, friends, family, honored patients, and all others interested in my progress towards this "lofty goal".
If you have any ideas on fundraising suggestions as well, please let me know via email (bwiese_at_cotse.com) or by posting to this site (anonymous posts allowed).
Thanks, Brian
Posted by bwiese at February 12, 2004 12:04 PM