Personal Musings

Today is November 30th. I just turned 54 yesterday and I hear that blogging is the most popular fad among young people these days. I'm up for trying anything (well, almost anything) once, so, although I don't know much about blogging, I thought I'd give it a whirl; see how long it spins.

I'm not sure where the term "blog" came from. I suppose I could look it up on Wikipedia, but I'd rather try to figure it out. So, I'm thinking of all the reasons to put a "b" in front of "log" and I'm not coming up with any reasonable words... then it hits me: weB log! OK, cool. I guess that means that although these online journals are akin to logs, that where writing in a log, even if it is an online storage location where you do the writing, is one-sided, whereas in the wide-open, free-spirited, share-and-interact environment of being on the web means that your journal can become a two-way communication, a conversation, a huge party of conversations.

It sounds fun to me! I just hope that I don't get so caught up in the interaction that it slowly bleeds away all my free time for anything else. (I also hope that there is some interaction, because I don't want to get bored with blogging, either.)

Here's to old dogs learning new tricks, then!