Gist as a blogging platform

Introduction

I've been meaning to write myself a blog for a while. As my roommate described, it would have several benefits:

Helps keep you organized and distills things you've learned or thought about recently.
Lets you offload ideas from your mind.
Lets you reference those ideas later.
- Ever have that moment where you remember solving something, but don't remember how?
Lets you get exposure for your thoughts.

It occured to me today that Gist makes the perfect platform for blogs like these. Why?

Advantages

One of the major barriers to entry for writing a blog for me was finding/writing the software, configuring wordpress, or something of the sort, and then finding a cheap/free host for it and maintaining it. Gist hosts my content for me.
Gist supports markdown! This means I can have some pretty formatting instead of just text files.

I can embedd images and code as well!

    public static IEnumerable<T> NextPermuatation<T>(this List<T> source, Func<T, T, Boolean> comparison)
    {
        int i = source.Count - 2;
        for (; i >= 0 && comparison(source[i+1], source[i]); i--) ;
        if (i == -1)
        {
            for (int x = source.Count - 1; x >= 0; x--)
                yield return source[x];
            yield break;
        }
        int j = source.Count - 1;
        for(; j > 0 && comparison(source[j], source[i]); j--);
        for(int x = 0; x < Math.Min(i, j); x++)
            yield return source[x];
        yield return source[Math.Max(i, j)];
        for (int x = source.Count - 1; x > Math.Max(i, j); x--)
            yield return source[x];
        yield return source[Math.Min(i, j)];
        for (int x = Math.Max(i, j) - 1; x > Math.Min(i, j); x--)
            yield return source[x];
    }

* They're more or less permanently hosted.  No need to worry about backups or harddrive failures.
* They're written through the wonderful Ace editor.
* They're all assosciated with my account for easy searching if I want to look up how I solved a problem before.
* Coworkers/friends can comment with their own thoughts on the topic, and they can use markdown as well.
* I can submit revisions if I find an error in the blog posts.
* I/someone else can fork/clone/revise it if I have a better idea to solve the problem I'm blogging about, and related solutions are all automatically linked to eachother.

So, Here's my first entry in (hopefully) a long line of personal expositions and reflections on programming and the like.

Quantumplation/Sample.cs

Gist as a blogging platform

Introduction

Advantages