Maiden Post
Ξ April 2nd, 2007 | → | ∇ Ramblings |
I’ve finally decided to quit waffling about setting up a website and actually set it into motion. My reasons for finally doing so are myriad, but a recent trip abroad gave me the final impetus to get off my tail and make it a reality.
The inner struggle I’ve had stems from two facts:
- I dislike blogs by people with nothing interesting to say
- I have nothing interesting to say
Needless to say, I am terrified about becoming exactly what I rage against. It is my hope that the typical self-important, boring, and pretentious writings will be missing from my website or at least short lived. As a general disclaimer though, it has been many years since I’ve written anything but detailed technical information for an audience, so please forgive me if my rhetoric is awkward, my prose is pretentious, and my grammar is painfully incorrect. I believe that a natural tendency of most bloggers is to use their blog as an outlet to satisfy their desire to write a novel or memoir without actually having to do it. This is most certainly the case with me, and I will be trying to fight it. My plan is to actually write everything that comes to mind, but only publish the most insightful or informative pieces. I completely recognize that the Catch-22 to this approach is that as I author and start creating the content, initially every post will be the most insightful and informative pieces.
So why risk it now? Simple. I feel that my recent approach to living a fulfilling life has both given me some interesting things to talk about and given me enough surreal experiences to comment on. Also, as a side-effect, I hope that requiring myself to publish something interesting on a regular basis will force me into actually becoming interesting. At the very least, having a chronicle of my thoughts will upon review prove that I am NOT in fact a unique snowflake, and that I don’t have anything interesting to bring to this world. That particular insight seems like an important one to have.
Anyway, welcome and thanks for reading.