It’s been a year since I decided to relax my non-archetype ideals and blog. It was (surprisingly) my lab-mate Aneesh’s blog (Whimsical Musings) that kinda inspired me. But the acclivity of the path that finally resulted in this post was enormous, as I shall currently make clear.
The ordeal began with naming the blog. As I spent the long atrophic hours at IISc, Bangalore last year trying to figure out why I wasn’t actually doing anything (aha! there’s my next post), I decided to invest the time in christening my blog. The initial ideas originated from some of the blogs I’d been forced to read some time before, though none of them really struck a chord.
The search for a name for my blog continued well into my fifth semester that merely produced ridiculous ideas like “I don’t know anything, sir” (Bless Kadoli’s soul). The sixth semester did produce some strong contenders with my IISc prof’s ‘Hoopla!’ topping the list. None of them, sadly enough, really made it till the end. And, at long last, as my browser struggled to connect to blogspot.com, I resigned to precisely what I was thinking and named my blog just that. (Of course, as Benjamin Franklin observed, “We must not in the course of public life expect immediate approbation and immediate grateful acknowledgment of our services”. Courtesy- Barron’s.)
The christening was merely one stage of the ordeal (that I eventually left unfinished). Something that I never really comprehended till I actually began writing this post was what to write. And after months of perusing innumerable blogs ranging from “The Last Paradox” to “McDreamy’s World“, I reasoned that something as ridiculously useless as the one I’m writing will still do and be accepted and read, probably avidly too, just like you, for one.
And for those of you who actually read my blogspot blog, yes- this is the same content. Please comment again.
And here it is.. TADA! My first (WordPress) post. And, that’s all it takes. A long holiday and no work to do. And a lil’ suggestion that WordPress is cooler than blogspot. Splendid.
1 Comment
May 11, 2008 at 12:51 pm
Are you implying my blog is ridiculous and useless???