This blog was originally hosted at wordpress, and then blogger, but I’ve decided to move back to wordpress because I dislike using google products for various reasons. The first few posts from the old blog location(s) will be copy+pasted here, hence the first few posts will appear as though they were all posted in one day when they were actually posted over a couple of months.
This will just be a place where I write down my thoughts on stuff. The idea is that by writing thoughts down I flesh them out and hopefully derive some greater meaning from them than I would by letting them sit around in my head. I figure this is also a good way to practise my writing skills in shape (given that my day to day life doesn’t otherwise involve much writing).
When I decided to start a blog I was initially going to use blogger, and did actually create a new blog with blogger. However, recently I’ve become more concerned with the amount of information google knows about me. I have my email with google, I often use google docs for word processing, I sometimes use google calendar (in fact I intend to use it more often this year to keep myself better organised), and I talk to friends using gtalk (and those conversations get logged). By using all these services I’m sure someone at google would be able to piece together a pretty decent picture of my life and where I live with all my personal details and everything. I know it’s pretty unlikely that anyone would choose to stalk me out of the millions of people who use google products, but just the fact that they have so much information about me has begun to make me uncomfortable. Just imagine though if they ever had an information leak or their security was compromised (unlikely I know given how good google has been up to now with its security and privacy). I find this a scary thought.
So that’s why I ended up deleting my blog on blogger and checked out livejournal (after hearing from one of my friends who uses it). But after creating a livejournal account I deleted that blog too. Livejournal seemed very complicated and wasn’t very easy to use compared to blogger (I had actually used blogger a couple of years ago for a little while and was used to its interface). After seeing the wordpress name on a blog I read fairly often I decided to check it out - and I was pleasantly surprised. The interface is similar to the blogger one, and it means google won’t be able to associate even more information about me with my personal details :)
That’s all for now. I’m only going to be posting as interesting thoughts come to me that I feel I should write down. This means posts might be few and far between, just so you know.