How to describe a blog? Or, rather, how to describe it in a way that makes it seem other than the rambling idiocy of Yet Another Geek On The Internet? Let's say, then, that my initial intent is to use this blog (how I *hate* that word!) as a forum for Yet Another Geek On The Internet to vent, to pontificate, to ramble -- in a manner both random and essential -- on subjects as diverse as music, politics, the 21st century workplace, and music (yes, there will be lots of that).
I was clearing out some folders in my Usenet/Newsgroups application and found the following, written (but never posted) in August 2002. It was responding ...