First!

Ok, this is my first ever blog posting, on my first ever blog. I'm home sick today, and finally got bored enough to do this, although I've been thinking about it for some time. This will be a forum where I rant and rave about things that I find of interest to me... and possibly of interest to others. Things like photography, personal and corporate computing and (of course) motorcycling.

Why here? Why on Blogger? Well it's not an independent entity, being owned by Google, but I have no particular affinity to/for Google products and services. I'm accused often of being a Microsoft sympathizer :-) , using their desktop OSes and services primarily -- although, I hasten to add, I also own and use OS/X and Linux boxen and OSes. My level of knowledge with MS OSes can be characterized as high, with the others being characterized as an interested player and user, but not an expert. All the same, I consider myself to be neutral, in the sense that it's not religion for me: They are all good, with relative plusses and minuses; and I won't blindly ignore the warts of any of them out of some misguided sense of loyalty. I am, essentially, not a "joiner" and play with as many of them as I can. Choice is extremely cool, and competition has pushed all of them to be much better than they would otherwise.

So why Blogger? Quite simple really: Ease of integration with Google's Adsense. This is something that I am doing for fun, and not as a commercial enterprise, but I would at some point like to establish a private domain, etc., and it would be nice if it were self-supporting. That's if I maintain any level of interest in continuing to do this in the first place. We'll see... Anyway, on with the show....