Why Blog?

I understand that many people just don't understand the whole blogging thing. This is the Paul Milligan version of the story. Most companies that employ technical people (designers, programmers, scientist &c.) require them to maintain a log book. The purpose of these are twofold, firstly so that official notes are kept of work done and secondly for the purpose of Patent and Copyright as log books have a legal status in disputes such as prior art, when deciding if a patent is genuinely original. Several years ago engineers, in particular, started keeping their log books as a web page. The essentials of a log is that it is a series of notes stored in a linear time-line. They are like a diary, what you did each day and why. Engineers started reading each others logs both to be nosey and to find out how to do things (after all if someone else has solved a problem and documented the fix, why do it all again?). As these logs were kept on the web they were called weblogs which got shortened to blogs. As reading other peoples blogs caught on, people started doing blogs on politics, religion and cat names. The world would never be the same again! Someone then wrote a web server app that made creating blogs easy, Google indexed all the pages and suddenly the inane rantings of seriously sad human beings became part of the currency of the internet. Sad -innit? Your task, should you chose to accept it, is to decide if this blog is worth the efforts of the author in writing it. Unfortunately this blog will not self destruct in 5 seconds! Now where did I leave my anorak?