What The???

Whoa! I’ve just turned wavethenavel.com into my “blog” with the help from the very nice people at www.blogger.com . I didn’t realize it until I signed up for my free blog, but they will post the content to my web-server for me! That’s sweet! I can now use any of the lovely off-line blogging programs (like MacJournal) to type up my entries at my leisure, post them through the www.blogger.com protocols, and have blogger update the site on www.wavethenavel.com without ever breaking a sweat. If only cooking was this easy! I would eat like a king!

For those of you who are a little behind the times, a “blog” is world-wide journal kept by the likes of you and me. It’s equivalent to thinking out loud…REALLY LOUD. I’ve enjoyed reading the various quips people make on their own blogs and decided to join the ranks. It’s fun, it’s free, and it doesn’t involve laboratory testing on small animals.

Where did the term “blog” come from? Good question. A little background is needed. In greek mythology, a blog was a large creature that guarded the gates of knowledge and wisdom. Any who wished to become wise had to break through the line of defense. There was one young man who had the guts to slay the blog and carried it’s head on his spear as he walked through the gates and set knowledge and wisdom free for use by the masses. Since then, those who carry the head of the blog are sharers of wisdom and knowledge with others.

Just kidding. Actually, “blog” is a contraction of “website log” or “weblog”, which got shortened by lazy typists to just “blog”. I personally like the greek myth story. It’s more interesting

More to come…much more…