This is rather daunting.
Some 35 years ago, when I first started working in the newspaper business, it was still a time of manual typewriters and clattering wire service machines.
Down in the composing room, type was still set in lead by linotype machines. Indeed one of most vivid memories of those days was the sight of a boiling cauldron of molten lead, stirred by a worker decked in a heavy leather protective gear - it was something out of Dickens.
After a few years a “computer” - just one - made its way into the newsroom and we gathered around the thing like the apes in “2001 - A Space Odyessey staring at the cockamamie thing and wondering what it was supposed to do. I’m still not sure.
Fast-forward to 2007 and after more than three decades in this business, I’m writing my first Blog entry. They tell me this is the wave of the future. I’ll take their word for it.
I have always been intimidated by technology. I resisted using ATMs for many years. I barely know how to use my cellphone, still can’t figure out how to get my messages.
In the late 1990s, I dreaded the prospect of using a lap-top, literally losing sleep at the idea of having to embrace a new bell, a new whistle.
And I suppose I’ve resisted the blogosphere because I simply didn’t understand it. But I need to. And so I might has well start now.
When I broached the idea of starting a blog I was asked what I would do with it.
And the candid answer is - I have no idea.
To be sure this space will weigh in with political ruminations, that’s what political junkies do after all.
As well, I suspect this blog will also, from time time, offer up observations on food, movies and whatever else is either annoying or intriguing at the moment.
Most importantly, I hope we have some fun. And so let’s begin.
Thanks in advance for reading. Now, if only I can figure out how to file this darn thing ...