My Thoughts, Exactly

Blogging. I never thought I'd be blogging. I have always been an anti-faddist. I not only don't go with the flow, I generally don't care much what the flow is, and usually wait until the flow has moved on before I check out whatever it was the flow was all about.

I am, of course, as much as anyone, quite fond of my own thoughts, ideas and opinions. I think I've had quite some good ones, and have never hesitated to bless others with them, in whatever context I happen to be at the time. When I have one that I think is particularly admirable, I write it down in a text file and save it. Apparently, however, others have, from time to time, found some bit of insight or inspiration from them as well; I've appeared in at least three Usenet sig lines, and someone even created a page of my quotes on Wikiquote. It was deleted because I'm not famous enough. Well, yay me.

Anyway, that got me to thinking about making these thoughts, ideas and opinions available in a centralized, publicly-accessible location, since there are probably few people interested in taking the trip to my house to read them on my computer. And those who are interested, no you may not. Don't look at me like that; you're making me nervous.

Being a web programmer and sometime web designer, naturally my first thought was to create a web site for the purpose. I'll do that eventually, I even have a great domain name registered, but right now I don't really have the time to put into it, so I decided to go this route to start with.

One thing I hesitated over is the fact that I have written under a number of different pseudonyms, which I have always made a modest effort to keep separate from each other and from my real identity. Not that it's ever been impossible or even especially difficult to associate any of them, but it did require a bit of research; having this blog will make the job fairly simple. Ah well, what the heck. Maybe I'll become famous after all. Suck on that, Wikiquote.

A lot of my intial posts will be stuff I've accumulated over the years. I'll date it when possible; otherwise don't assume it's necessarily relevant to anything going on in the world today. Although it could be, you never know. I'm like that sometimes.

So here, for what it's worth, for the inspiration, enlightenment, entertainment, amusement or ridicule of anyone who cares to read them, are my thoughts, exactly.

Blogging. I can't believe I'm blogging.