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After years of not having a personal web page and steadfastly refusing to create a blog because “I have nothing to say to the world,” I finally realized that I was wrong and this is the solution to all the frustration I have felt over the years from not being able to express myself when pressing issues create strong opinions in my head. What made me even more opposed to blogging was its sudden explosion in popularity and the fact that I am the opposite of trendy. If something is unreasonably popular, especially to the point of being trendy, not only will I not do it, but I will actively avoid doing it. Yet here I am now, with my very own blog complete with lame title and a first post full of mindless stream-of-consciousness drivel.

I hate to relent, but I am not one that can’t admit when I am wrong and will not cut off my nose to spite my face by not joining in the hoopla just to be right. After all, there are two possible reasons “everyone is doing it.” Either it’s just the latest Internet trend or it is the greatest new innovation in communication and pseudo-journalism since the big media powerhouses started publishing on the Internet. I will write more about this in the future along with many other topics, most of which are science and technology oriented, but I have interests in many other fields (politics, religion, sociology, and life in general, just to name a few). One of the things that least appealed to me about blogs was the “on-line diary” nature of many of them and the resulting fluff value I would assign to them as a result. Ironically, however, there is a good chance that that is precisely what is developing here. While I am aiming for something a few notches above that one the journalistic totem pole, only time will tell that for sure.

If I succeed, please feel free to let me know with job offers for editorial columns with on-line news outlets. I have been following the tech industry for more than a decade now and have faired rather well with my predictions, although, since this is my first real on-line presence, I have no supporting evidence thereof. That is what I am hoping to accomplish with this blog: a public forum to voice my take on the goings-on in the world as they happen, again, mostly from a sci/tech perspective. I hope to address old topics at some time or another and many of my early posting will likely be updated versions of old “editorials” that never got published anywhere or compilations of previously unrecorded thoughts on many issues I have pondered in the past. This is where, perhaps, I can make a name for myself with my idle musings, but come on, that’s pretty wishful thinking isn’t it?

Well, yes, but that’s another personal resolution (and promise before God) that I hope to fulfill with this. I have decided that I no longer want to put off doing things that I want to do until [whenever]. I can no longer say “when I grow up…” I am almost 25 years old with a daughter who turns 3 tomorrow and if I’m not grown up now, I never will be. I have waited and second guessed my competencies long enough and I am ready to go for it now. Even as I write this, I am wondering if I have droned on for too long and if I should even post it. At this point, I’m sure I will but I still have to honor my commitment and keep up with the blog after that. Who knows how many blogs and web pages were posted once and never updated again? I will not be one of them. That is why I waited so long before I posted in the first place.

All that finally being said, I will close my first post with a quick thought:

When people tell you to reach for the stars but also tell you to keep your feet planted firmly on the ground, aren’t they telling you to put your head in the clouds?

That’s just the theory I am testing with this blog and I think I can prove myself wrong…

…but that’s just my opinion.