The beginning..
I had never thought it would come to this.
I have (to put it mildly) not been a big fan of blogging. There are 2 main reasons for that. One is that I'm lazy (which still is a major thread to the survival of this experiment), and the second is that I just didn't 'get' this blogging thing, in the same way that I still don't 'get' this whole web 2.0 thing.
Two weeks ago I was in New Zealand for the Web on the Piste conference (perfectly organized by the guys from Straker Interactive and the guys from Gruden), where I did a session on Flex applications using LiveCycle Data Services and a ColdFusion backend. Someone who had attended my session came to me and asked me "Do you blog?". My response was "no, I don't".
Last week I was in Bangalore, India, where I did a week of 'Flex Train the Trainer' for Adobe India. One of the delegates of the training asked me "Do you blog?". "Nope", I said. "You should" was his reply.
So for those two guys (and my mother) I have decided to give it a try.
That decision left me with a whole new set of problems. First of all: Software. I remembered attending a session done by Laura Arguello of ASFusion a few months earlier at the FlexManiacs conference in Washington DC, where she mentioned their new Blog product, named Mango Blog. In short, I liked it.
Next problem: A title. Blogs have cool and catchy titles and now I needed one too.
Let me take you back to Queenstown, New Zealand, the Web on the Piste Conference.
One of the gold sponsors was Microsoft, so they had sent a bunch of their guys to do some sessions. One of the guys was a MS Evangelist (they have 'em too!). He started his session (that I really enjoyed) with showing an episode of 'Ask a Ninja'. In short, I choose the title because it doesn't make any sense, like this whole web 2.0 thing doesn't make any sense to me.
