About blogging

This is my first blog. Ever. While I try to come up with things to write about, in lack thereof I post interesting links and funny videos. At least I find them interesting and funny. It's almost scary to write stuff about myself publicly. Of course I cant compete with Peter's literary skills so I know better to even try. Why keep a blog? To impress? Not my style. As a kind of journal? Too private. Too aid people in getting to know me better? Hang out with me. I've never been the "get-to-know-me-in-5mins" McDonald's person. In fact, you may try as hard as you want and may have known me for a decade or more and believe you know me inside out but I will still surprise you with tidbits of info about myself that make up my personality you had no clue about but are core to my personality. It's not that dont want to disclose information about myself, it's just that I rarely see the need too. If you want to get to know me, pay close attention and look beyond the veil - I will rarely volunteer to present things about myself on a wholesale platter - which, of course,is the norm aka "Advertise Yourself". So what else to write about if I can just as well post interesting links and funny videos. Too add more of the same, how about bits and pieces of interesting information? If you find it interesting too, maybe we can even be friends?!

Here goes:

Historically (ha), the term "blog" is derived from "e-log" which stems from the days before the www. Short for "electronic log", e-logging was a tool which journalists used when "logging" their reports from wherever it was they went to report things. Once the internet went ww, the term e-log evolved into "web log" from which the now commonly used term "blog" is derived.

Betcha dint know that.