Hello, weblog. This is a demo entry — short on purpose, so you can see how a short Entry renders in full on the front page, with no truncation.

This one is also flagged as highlighted = true, which is why it shows up in the Highlights sidebar on the right. Delete this post and the other demo posts, and start writing for real.

This is a demo entry — long on purpose. It shows what happens to a long Entry on the front page: everything before the <!-- more --> marker below is shown as the summary, and the rest is cut off with a word-count link.

This is a demo entry — a medium-length one with no <!-- more --> marker, so it renders in full on the front page and then gets cut off at the truncation threshold. Wait — no. Without the marker, the front page shows the entire body, whatever its length; the marker is the only truncation mechanism. That is the point of this post: the author decides where the front-page summary ends, not the theme.

Why a weblog at all? Because writing in public is the cheapest forcing function for thinking clearly. Posts here will be uneven and incomplete; that is fine. The archive is the product.