Starting a new blog is kind of like starting a new job. You’re all excited about the prospects and your head is full of ideas and categories just waiting to come out. However, like all new jobs, you have some house-keeping to do before you dive in and make a splash.
First and THE most important thing you HAVE to do before you even try and get your office assigned is, find out where the “restroom” is located. And of course, there’s following the “Male Restroom Etiquette” that usually needs no review. Next to the Coffee Machine, this is by far the most important thing you’ll need to know. Why? Well, because, we do have natural needs to fulfill and secondly, it’s a great place to “get-away” when you need to think and do NOT want anyone to find you. And, believe it or not, there is actually a Restroom Association dedicated to providing clean public restrooms everywhere.
Second, as mentioned above, the Coffee Machine is the next most important item to find. Even if you do not drink this elixir of life for starting the day, it’s still important for “locating” co-workers and next to the water cooler, it’s probably the most used area for keeping up with the “Latest” knowledge about anything and any subject known to man. However, I digress.
So, what’s this got to do with a TECH blog? Well, everything because there are restrooms and coffee machines on the web that help us get through our day. And there is hardware, software, technology, gadgets and web sites that will fall into one of these two categories. If all we(I) did was talk about the NEXT thing or about some technology, then, it’d be kind of boring.
Therefore, I’ve created two categories that are at the end of two spectrum’s, but similar in that they are needs and wants. Restrooms and Coffee Machines. These are two necessities of life and with technology, there are lots of necessities that I’m thinking about categorizing in this fashion. Restrooms represent the “We gotta have” things and “Coffee Machines” are things that are wonderful, help us out, but are a luxury or more important, a luxury and something we “think” we can’t do without.
After these two prime categories and ways of thinking about technical things, there are a few other obvious ones that come to mind. THE most obvious is “Garbage“. As we go through the day, we all generate a lot of waste and stuff that is just plain junk, refuse or needs to be thrown out. Therefore, my third category will be “Garbage”. There is of course a lot of Garbage or Junk on the web and internet.
Since we live in a society of music, evidenced by the proliferation of the iPod, blasting car stereos and surround sound coming from nearly every home on the block, then the other category that may have significance is “Rock“, well okay, it’s a music genre, but it’s obviously that it’s something that’s well, just great. As in “You Rock” or “That freakin ROCKS!”.
Everything else will be filed under “Uncategorized” or I’ll make up a category as I go. So, there you have it, the first post on my “Tech Blog” that has nothing really to do with technology.
Stay tuned…
Another Tech Blogger – Shane
