Thoughts About

The purpose of Thoughts

(Took quite some time for the DNS entry to propagate. Finally it resolves, another wohoo!)

First of all, I'll tell you I have zero aptitude for exhibitionism. I don't think anyone is interested in when I washed my laundry, ate, took a shit etc. Why would I even want to tell the whole world about the same things everybody else do as well? While I have nothing to hide, I have no desire to become famous either. Thus, my identity and what I do in real life (yes I still try to think I have a life :) is not relevant. If somebody really wants to track me down, go knock yourself out, it's not hard at all.

I founded the site solely for giving myself a way to express my thoughts. While I've always had strong opinions on things I believe I know well, I've often kept them to myself. After all, how the hell should I know anything better than somebody else? However, over the years, I've started thinking that hey, maybe I do have something to say. Maybe it does matter what people say. Maybe it isn't so bad to let everybody else know your opinion, even if it's wrong. Can an opinion be wrong?

I'm always curious about anything new, fascinated by gadgets, cool toys, how things work and technology in general. However, I find little purpose for equipment that don't do anything practical. My profession is in software. As such, the topics I'm posting about are most likely programming, techology and science related, with occasional ponderings of crazy phenomena in modern society. Who'll be the lucky Darwin award winner the next year? The cool thing about blogs is that I don't have to limit myself to certain topic. I'll just post the greatest thoughts I've had (and believe me I'm not going to post all of them) and hope that they'll be useful and entertaining for others, or at least provoke somebody else something to think about and to comment on.