I guess I started this blog because I need to write. Yeah, that’s pretty much it. I’ve been writing in one form or another for a few decades now, and I rely on it as an intellectual and emotional outlet. What that implies about my life may be interesting, but mostly only to me.
I’ve been blogging since way before it was cool, on Geocities and Tripod in the late 90s, and then on my own domain, with Blogger, and then later WordPress and a few different social community forum things. I can’t remember all the different sites and publishing methods I’ve used.
I’ve been using the internet in one form or another since probably 91/92 or so, as a young child. I’ve grown up with the internet as the technology itself has matured. For that reason it is where I feel most comfortable in different phases of my life. I crave all the forms of communication the internet makes possible, with the exception of video, which I feel is somehow restrictive.
Many, if not most of the platforms and technology I’ve used are long since defunct. This has made me somewhat jaded, and especially purchase phobic when it comes to choosing technology platforms on which to rely for a long period of time. It has also however made me very optimistic, as I have been able to witness first hand the rapid ascent of the computer age over the last 30 years. It has really been a glorious thing to behold. The internet has opened new avenues of communication to people all over the world, for the first time in history people across the world can cheaply and easily communicate with each other. The impact of this revolution is still yet to be fully felt, even as it continues to transform the way the world works. So there is hope as technology continues its now seemingly inexorable advance.
In a way all of the topics of this blog will be somehow related to that, as this revolution has informed my life and the way I think about the world.
It’s been too long since I’ve last blogged on a regular basis, hence the name of this here site. The idea is to write once a day, at least. Let’s see how I do. I’ll probably fail. But that’s alright, because I’ll try again and again.