Walking the line - I had been thinking about creating a blog. I've got a new computer with lots of capacity and thought blogging would be a good way to pull me into the world of techno geeks and Internet hipsters all at the same time. (More on the mixed success of that effort later).

Around the time I was thinking about a blog, I picked up a copy of the University of Tennesseee's communications department publication and read about people getting fired because of their blogs.
both had posted job-related photos, one a flight attendant perched on the top of seats in a plane, showing a lot of leg but nothing really bad, and the other was a loading dock at a Microsoft plant, with pallets of Apple computers on it, with the comment that "everybody wants macs," or even Microsoft wants G-3s, or whatever.
but the "comments" from their employers were not very favorable.
So one friend strongly advised against a blog. I say I'll write about a beautiful rainbow I saw recently, leading another friend to predict a very boring blog no one will read.
Maybe she's right. But I bet there's tons of boring blogs out there, so what the heck. Even boring people crave validation.

I made my first entry and tried to send a link to some friends. They couldn't find it and I couldn't find it for a while.
I think I will keep this up, though. I'll follow the advise of one friend: never to blog after my seocnd beer.
Maybe someone will come up with a breathalyzer that will lock up the blog if the user blows over a pre-set BAC.
Cause, of course, that's one of the dangers of blogging. We feel a certain anonminity from the idea of the faceless, teeming world wide web and then add in some liquid courage and next thing you know, you've posted your pix of the boss with the janitor in the mail room or your, in your opinion, hilarious impression of the boss's eating manners or whatever and bam, there you go, out the blog.
Might be a more interesting blog after getting canned but J.C. Penney's and the gas company probably would fail to see the humor.