I've finally taken the plunge, and started a blog. I've been thinking about it for a while, but haven't actually gone ahead with it. Mostly this is because although I am manifestly incredibly witty and wellspoken (written?), I'm also nobody particularly important, have never done anything exceptional, and don't even have a specific theme in mind to give the blog focus and cohesion.
Therefore the only reason I'd be starting one is from pure self-aggrandisement, and while naturally that's a good enough reason for just about anybody, I still wasn't sure it was really enough impetus. Add to the mix that I am simultaneously very hardworking (at work) and indolent (in leisure time), and you don't really have a good combination for even starting the thing - let alone continuing to write with any regularity.
The thing that finally inspired me to jump into the exciting world of blogging (you must imagine a gently ironic tone just there) was that I managed to find the solution to a Microsoft Outlook 2007 problem that the internets had been totally unable to assist me with. Not anywhere in the hits for the (fairly precise) keywords that I googled was there any a straightforward answer what is a confusing but in the end, fairly straightforward problem.
And so I thought to myself, this is where a blog could actually have a point. If I have a blog, and I write about my solution to this problem using those same fairly precise keywords, surely at some point in the future another lost victim of Microsoft's daring leap back to the dark ages will come across my answer, thereby saving themselves 2 hours and endless amounts of trawling through onto the (shock! horror!) second or third pages of Google results, only to find forum after forum of this question not being answered.
Of course, I'd still actually have to write the post, but at the moment, it's a start.
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