Why blog?

So, here it is, my first blog post on my first blog. Why blog and why now? 
Well, a number of reasons really. Several people have been on at me to
start blogging for quite a while now. In addition, I've recently started
writing stuff down in emails, text files, wherever and have decided
that it really helps with getting your mind in order. A few people saw
some of my mind scribbles and commented that it would make good blog 
material so, whereas previously I thought I'd never have the time to blog, 
it suddenly seemed that this wasn't the case. 

So, here we are. I have a blog and, I have a backlog of potential posts so 
that, at least initially, we should be able to make this blog a fairly rapidly 
changing, if not mildly interesting place.