What is a Blog?

This is essentially the question I asked myself when I was attempting to determine whether or not to start this blog. Why did I desire one? What benefit would it give me? What would I use it for? Perhaps in its ideal form a blog is meant to foster an exchange of ideas between people and provide the opportunity for people to express themselves on suitable issues of public debate. However, I find that I have nothing in this vein to offer - nothing I care about, anyway. While I read the paper through almost every day and have a great deal opinions about everything from politics to cartoons, the matter currently of interest to me, and of seemingly ever-growing importance, is my own self. Therefore, what I will write in the near future will be of a personal nature and I’m not writing any of it because I think it would be of benefit for someone to read it, but rather because I need to write it.