Blog

It all started when Arvind came to my desk during his coffee break. That does not mean that I sit in the canteen or my desk is a coffee table! He mentioned that all the possible names have already been taken up on blogspot.com. So, I tried a few names right away and indeed almost all my tries on blogspot ended up with the blog name already existing. And I was trying names like fireexit, CtrlAltDel, Logout, Password, banjo, masalachai, gandu, HakunaMatata! Is the whole world blogging? There must be so much of recorded digital data out there – personal diaries, cooking recipes, amateur poetry, show of arts, family photos, innovative tutorials, technical articles, cribbing outbursts, political bashing, ugly confessions and what not. Just think about it and there is a blog for it! There must quite a detailed description about blog on sites like wikipedia, so I need not re-invent the wheel here.

Ketan joined in saying that blogs are a source of earning money if it is really famous. There were suggestions to have the first article something like interview with Osama bin Laden in the crowded train compartment of Indian railways. Whose father what goes? (literal translation of ‘kiske baap ka kya jaata hai?’) The suggestion had to be turned down due to risk to life. A better way to attract eye balls would be an interview with a celebrity like Shilpa Shetty. But, why would she (for that matter, why would any known celebrity) give an interview to a first time blogger? In that case, why not just publish a fictional interview with Shilpa Shetty. Who is going to check whether everything that is printed was actually said by her? By the way, Shilpa Shetty’s biography is available in Poundland!

So coming back to the topic for a blog… there is no specific topic in mind. But there is so much happening around… so much humour and so much random unrelated stupidity… lets have a blog, I say. Why not? One more drop to the existing sea of blog bytes being. Like the Big B would have said – Hum Kahaan chalo hamau blog likh aaaye