As I say in my about me page, when I started this page a short time ago, I really had no idea about the world of blogs. I just had things swirling in my brain and wanted an outlet. The nice thing about making your own web page as opposed to trying to work out your frustrations in a BBS community, is that on your own web page, you don't need to put up with anyone else's crap (if you don't want to). On a BBS you have to deal with the never-ending drive to defend yourself as people twist your words into all sorts of pretzelized shapes. On your own page...screw it, just ban 'em if they bug ya - who can blame you? It's yours, not a piece of some damn "community" everyone feels a part of.


Since starting this, I started lampreying myself into the big world of blogging and I've noticed something - there are a lot of really intelligent, interesting people out there! Holy crap! I've been adding links to the list of Blogs at left as I surf around, basically any page that seemed like it had a slant I liked, looked decent and seemed to be updated regularly. I've slowed down on that, though, cause, damn again, there are a LOT of great pages out there.


I used to avoid "personal opinion pages" since I was never really that interested in anyone else's stinky opinion, frankly. Hell, if I want someone's opinion I'll beat it out of 'em, other than that, shut up. That's my attitude, but of course, that's just a self-defense mechanism to avoid being annoyed by...annoying opinions. But one thing that I've enjoyed about the blogosphere is the way one may "follow the memes." Given the size of the blogosphere, it's not been difficult to find (and bookmark) only those pages which have a slant I enjoy, and that's been...soothing.


The difficult thing is that I end up getting up a thought, and no sooner have I thought it, than I find someone else has already said the same damn thing I was thinking about, only they said it probably better than I was ever going to. So my page here ends up being pointers and comments, but that's fine...cause it's mine! Ha!


Speaking of following the memes, a recent post got picked up by some other sites and generated a bunch of hits. It was interesting to watch. First it was picked up by Dancing with Dogs, from there to Spleenville, then on to Dean Esmay, picking up hits as it went until it hit Instapundit where it topped out at about 1700 hits from that one source. Not sure if that's interesting to anyone else, but it was interesting to watch from my perspective. Oh, a by-product was that a bunch of people started hot-linking one of the photos from the story. I didn't mind so much that a folks posting in various BBS threads did it (interestingly, it seems to have gotten some traction in automobile enthusiast BBS's), but it was a little troublesome that other bloggers and webmasters did so (without an accompanying link), as they should know better. I've since disabled remote linking.


Well, ttfn...on we go, cruising the news.