This is my blog.

Despite having been a spectator of the blogosphere for a decade (i.e. since before our species actually knew the word blog), I have resisted any temptation to set up my own blog. I’m just a random guy, living in a place, going to work, doing things — nothing spectacular. To me, blogs are not only for people who have something to say; they are also for an audience that wants to listen. What’s the point of wasting hundreds of hours editing articles which nobody will read? That makes as much sense as write-only memory. It’s much easier to be a consumer rather than a producer.

Basically, this blog is my wife’s idea. She has this enormous network of family and friends spread across the planet. I have a tiny family and few friends, most of them living within a fifteen minute drive. Part of being married is that these friend-family sets eventually merge. It’s now my task to help in the upkeep of our merging network — providing updates, distributing photos, sending gifts, etc. So, there is now a sizable audience and the mandate to communicate with them. For the first time since there were blogs, there is now actual reason for me to have a blog.