Vis a tergo

What's in a blog?

I decided to begin this blog completely by accident. The company that I work for is considering the use of MovableType for its corporate site, and I was asked to install it on the server. I installed MovableType at the kerf.org domain to test out things on my own. I've been reading a number of very well written blogs for some time now and liked the idea of having one of my own. It was always a question of what to write about.

I like the idea of having a sort of online journal, especially to keep far-reaching friends and family up-to-date on what's going on. The problem is that I'm not a particularly public kind of person, so the really interesting stuff would have a tendency to be left out of this public face. What happens if an old entry comes back to haunt me?

The other apprehension that I had was that most blogs come across as self-important at one time or another, and who wants to sound self-important? That one's easy to rationalize by realizing that it's most like that when it comes closest to being a journal. The more people get involved, the more diverse the topics become I suppose.

So, in the end it was just too much fun playing with the new (to me) technologies involved and I decided to put Vis a tergo up. I'm sure that the more entries I write, the less reservations I'll have about committing to a blog.