Hi All, Today is the beginning of my new and strange adventure of this thing called "blogging". I've been a big fan of blogs and i work in a position where i'm always encouraging staff on the use of websites (the Web 2.0 kind) and other online tools to work better, smarter and reach farther...i believe in what i say and in what i ask folks to get involved in, and what better way is there to prove this than to start(and consistently use) my own blog.

I have to be clear though...i'm not doing this just because i need to prove that web technologies work to my collegues and friends but since there's so much i feel i can share with the world, so much i can connect with with folks from all over the world...and because it's kinda, well...fun! just writing these few introductory lines gives me this strange overwhelming feeling that i may be looking back a year from now at the posts i made and just being amazed at how so much will have happened.

So i'm not really going to put a lot of personal stuff here...no embarrassing little details or any of that bedroom stuff. i think there's enough of that out there...and i'm not that kinda guy. just plain ol' me stuff.

What kind of guy, am i....you ask?

Well, very laid back for starters. i can pretty much stand a lot, just as long as it doesn't hurt or demean other people; differing points of view, differing working methodologies even different way of thinking. It's interesting really...a while ago i was in a work-related retreat where the facilitators had us take a personality quiz (u probably have heard of some of these, if not undergone the horror of going through one) but turns out i hate criticism! i hate criticism! i don't agree and yes sometimes i'll get a little worked up at someone opposing a proposal i have made but more often than not, it's because i can see that they have made little effort in validating their arguments or are just being obstinate (and hence stuck up) and i think i'm generally pretty flexible.

Anyhow back to the content of this blog. i expect it will be rather techie (here's the chance to jump ship) but i promise to add a lot of interesting stuff about my world as i go on that's just plain ol' me. Stuff about my environment, people and those kinds of things...maybe even politics. Hold on tight and welcome to my world!