Why blog?

This is my first blog post ever! Why blog? Why now?

At the early stages of blogs, I (and many others) dismissed weblogs as a fad that would quickly dissipate. However, over the years, I’ve come to realize that blogs are powerful and an effective way to communicate. So, like the cellphone that is attached to my waist, and the mp3 player that’s attached to my ears, I’ve come to accept this technology as an inevitable extension of my fingertips.

This is also a place where I can journal — a practice that I wish to start up in earnest this year. (Sorry, it won’t contain very very personal things.) But it will contain entries that I think might be of use to others out there.

One concern about this whole blog thing is that it might become a time sink for you and me. So let’s agree to not let this blog get the best of our lives. After all, we have to live real life in the real world so that we can have real stuff to write about…

So, “Hello World!” Here it goes!