First post

Another phase, another blog. I’ve done four of these things, the first was intensely personal, the second for money, and three and four were false starts. Of these, only the second and fourth are still up on the interwebs: Dog Eat Blog (the name was my idea, even though I’m more of a cat person) and my MySpace blog. I stopped working for the company that hosts Dog Eat Blog, and for some reason I didn’t really get into the whole MySpace thing. Facebook, now that’s another story, but that isn’t really blogging, unless you count the status updates, which I usually leave blank.

Anyway, I’m posting this from The Globe Café and Bookstore in downtown Prague. The WiFi ain’t free, but the atmosphere’s always good, whether it’s busy or not (today it’s not), and the coffee’s decent. I’ll probably bang off a slew of posts on various topics today, buzzing on filtered coffee refills, hopefully giving this thing some kind of structure.

I don’t usually read extensive posts, but in my past blogs I had a tendency to write way too much, straying from non-existent points, going off on unrelated tangents, and generally being self-indulgent, like most personal blogs. While self-indulgent blogging is not necessarily a bad thing, it usually makes pretty dull reading. So I’ll try to keep things short, but old habits die really hard.

So, what can a reader expect here at Driftword? Obviously entries on stuff that interests me, entries that will provide at most some useful information, at least a welcome diversion during the workday or aimless surfing. Topics include fitness (mainly weightlifting) and nutrition, writing and literature, the internet, computer gaming, Prague and the Czech Republic, and whatever happens to be on my mind when I sit down to write. The next few posts serve as introductions to these topics.