My first, albeit quickly aborted, attempt at blogging was a few years ago when I fancied myself as a cricket statistician who would thrill fellow cricket nuts with the ability to wander through the maze of cricketing statistics and conjure up some brilliant insights that would alter people's perceptions regarding the "worth" or "value" of some players. In particular, my blog was targeted at weeding out the flashy but ultimately under performing players (lots of sub-continent cricketers come to mind!). This attempt was aborted due to several reasons:
1. The emergence of cricinfo and superior statisticians with access to a huge database.
2. The lack of interest that my blogs generated
3. The time required to come up with meaningful analyses and the fact that I was desperately struggling to juggle full-time work and at least 20 hours of study per week.
4. The annoying, pointless drivel that people posted as comments or reactions to my "findings".
Clearly, idiotic comments are still likely to be a problem but hopefully the other problems can be solved by dedicating the blog to relatively mundane events rather than the exciting world of cricket statistics!
Now, after reading quite a few interesting blogs, my interest has been rekindled and I am curious as to how some of my friends will perceive my writings - will they consider it to be trivial, useless, downright pathetic or heaven forbid, actually interesting? This is the prime motivation for this blog...granted, I do not expect frank feedback from many people about my blogging skills (or lack thereof). I hope at least some close friends and my family will tell me the truth.
The other purpose of the blog is also to keep a virtual record of the places that my wife and I plan to visit and our experiences. We have promised each other that the first few years of our marriage will involve visiting new places, particularly in and around Sydney. As of now, it appears that the promises will be kept but it is anyone's guess as to whether it will continue to be translated into reality!
I really should be getting back to work now...more later. Watched American Gangster last night so maybe shall write something about that in the next blog!
-- Aravind.
